What happens if we find out when and how we die

We will all die. Each of us, everyone we know, who is dear to us - there will be no exceptions. Unlike animals, a person realizes and accepts the fact of the finiteness of his life path, but no one knows when and under what conditions he will stop...

How a child adapts to the American school

The child will go to a school where only English is spoken. Do I need to somehow prepare him for this? My daughter went to an American school - she is 13, she understands a lot, but is embarrassed to speak up. How to set up your child and give him confidence? We are moving to the USA with...

How a woman created the online community that led to the US massacres

In 1997, 24-year-old Alana from Toronto (Canada) created the "Involuntary Virginity Project" website for those who could not find a partner. Now community members are organizing massacres and persecuting women, writes the BBC Russian Service. In 1997, there was no ...

How to recognize psychopaths and what happens when they are in power

At some point, several years ago, I stopped being surprised at many human actions. I no longer screamed in righteous anger, “How can this be? And where is a person's conscience? "," But if it were so with him? "," How can you lie ...

How America is obsessed with raising self-esteem

In 1991, the children's book The Lovables in the Kingdom of Self-Esteem was published. Written by Diane Lumans and illustrated by Kim Howard, the message is simple yet powerful: you kid reading ...

Why do people passively watch the transmission of violence in social networks?

With the rise in popularity of streaming services such as Periscope and Facebook Live, users have increasingly used them to demonstrate acts of violence. Hundreds of people witness the broadcasts of murders or suicides, but few are trying to stop them. Moreover, many even ...

How to recognize a cult and protect yourself and your family

The antithesis of freedom is not a prison, not a totalitarian state, or even slavery. This is a cult, when not only the body, but also the consciousness of a person is captured. According to psychologist Michael Langon, editor-in-chief of the magazine and several books on cult practices, ...

How marketing subordinates people's minds

Marketing skillfully controls people's minds. Often we don’t even suspect that the choice of our purchase was made a second before we were about to buy something. For the first time, the technologies of marketing psychology were described in detail in Vance Packard’s work “Secret Manipulators” in...

How to change life for the better for 3 of the day

Today there are a lot of trainings for almost every taste. There are effective, efficient ones that open up new horizons, but there are also absurd or funny ones, for example, a webinar on putting a blanket in a duvet cover. Despite the differences, all trainings have one thing in common - people. People,…

Marriage contributes to obesity

Scientists at the University of Basel, engaged in research into health psychology, have partially refuted the widespread belief that a happy marriage has a beneficial effect on human health. In the course of a statistical analysis of the body mass index (BMI) of married and single people, experts came to the conclusion: married respondents...

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