Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 days agoRethinking the Power of Peers During Adolescence
Parental support protects bullied adolescents from mental-health problems more strongly than peer support in this Benin sample.
Respondents were randomly assigned to one of four conditions and instructed to name a non-famous person who is either cool, not cool, good, or not good. The participants were then asked to assess this person's values and personality, using the Portrait Values Questionnaire and a measure of the Big Five Personality Traits. There were 15 different traits to evaluate in total. From there, the research team crunched the numbers.
What features of Frankenstein's creature make him fearsome to villagers who stumble upon him in the forest? Is it his imposing height, his torn jacket, or his face, pallid and crisscrossed with deep scars? The new film's director, Guillermo Del Toro, says that "the most interesting landscape in the world is the human face," and this is a face from which we have much to learn. 1