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04/29/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Watching TV is like a drug for little kids – and it is the gateway to an unhealthy lifestyle

Have you ever noticed how your kids forget everything else when they’re watching TV? Don’t wait until they’re addicted to it before you do something about their TV habits. Several studies have already proven that watching television can significantly influence brainwaves and states of consciousness. In fact, if people watch too much television, they have a […]

11/27/2017 / By Russel Davis

It’s all propaganda: New research suggests media coverage about disease outbreaks is designed to control what you think and remember about the disease

A study published in the journal Psychological Science, the flagship publication of the Association for Psychological Science, reveals that mass media coverage and personal anxiety influence people about the facts they both remember and forget during a disease outbreak. “The starting point for our study was the exaggerated coverage of Ebola in 2014 despite the absence of any serious […]

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