PsychWorld

If you have 99 problems in your life, chances are you’re not getting much sleep. Balancing work or school with your personal life is not easy, especially with constant reminders from emails, text messages, and facebook about what you should be doing and what you want to be doing. So to get everything done, sleep is the first thing you sacrifice, right? Well you might want to reconsider your mentality. Getting sleep might be the easiest and best way to solve all of your problems according to great article published in Time.

Kenneth D. Hartline, founder of Hartline Enterprises LLC, played all sports in high school and was especially good at golf. He was on the high school varsity golf team and was great in practice. But when it came to matches, Kenneth always freaked out and did not do as well as he knew he could without the audience of “8 parents”. That made him wonder about the psychology of athletes. For example, how could Tiger Woods stay so calm with a massive audience and cameras in his face?

Unless you’re living in a cave, you’ve probably heard in some way about Paris Hilton’s cocaine possession and Lindsay Lohan’s continuous encounters with law enforcement. Turns out, the two ladies are at least helping someone in the process. According to a new Ohio State University study, reading negative news about young people boosts older people’s self-esteem.

“It’s not what technology you have, it’s how you use it,” says University of Iowa Computer Science Professor Juan Pablo Hourcade. It has long been known that autistic children love computers, yet only a few software developers have figured out how to help these children use computers in a way that makes them more social instead of isolating them further (and they charge a high price for it!). That is why Professor Hourcade and two of his students, Natasha Bullock-Rest and Thomas Hansen, decided to apply their knowledge of multi-touch displays with psychology to create Open Autism Software.

Would you steal an expensive drug from a large, thriving pharmaceutical company if it meant saving your spouse’s life? How about from the mom-and-pop drugstore down the street? While you may never be confronted by a situation like this one, it is an almost inescapable fact that at some point, you will find yourself in the middle of a messy moral dilemma. One might imagine that decisions of this caliber require every ounce of decision-making power that the brain can muster. According to a Harvard study released this week, however, one would be wrong.

In our individualistic society, it may be surprising to find out that social interactions shape our finest and lowest moments in life according to a new study from the University of Buffalo. With our constant focus on achieving our individual goals for work, school, or hobbies, we might loose track of what really makes us happy: people we care about and who care about us.

With the widespread availability of porn on the internet, teens no longer have to rely on their parents, friends, churches, or schools to teach them about sex. However, porn only raises more questions than it answers for teens and adults. Unrealistic portrayals of sex in porn movies leaves people secretly concerned and wondering if they’re normal with nowhere to go for answers. So instead of focusing on what kind of education to promote in schools, Britain progressively rethinks sex education with hit TV show Sexperience.

If science was able to tell you who your “one” is, would you want to know? That’s the question introduced in the clever movie TiMER, which I highly recommend. Although I don’t think we’ll ever have a timer that counts down to the moment you first see your soulmate, scientists are coming close to finding exactly what attracts couples to each other. This research is used (hopefully) by booming online dating websites such as Chemistry.com to help you find your ”one”.

As a teenager in an Indian school, one would think that the only thing I would need to think or worry about is studies and friends. And this might have been the case 10, or even 5 years ago. Not anymore. Now, if you study in a half way prestigious school, there will be parties. And these parties will be crazy. The ‘crazy’ you see in TV shows and movies. With drinks, cigarettes and inappropriate behavior, which hopefully one would regret in the future.

College season is here! It’s time to get out of your parent’s basement and head to paradise where you are your own boss. And as your own boss, you’re up for an adventure involving lots of alcohol and lost of sex, right?! Well, not so fast. In college, where there are no parents or other boring adults to supervise you, your friends take that role according to a new study from Arizona State University.