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...would agree that Internet or video-game dependency is a legitimately diagnosable problem. Some suggest that pathological game-playing or Internet surfing is not an addiction per se, but a symptom of a deeper issue, such as depression or anxiety. But Cash believes the virtual world can be no less addicting than other activities, such as gambling. She describes her first patient who exhibited signs of compulsion: He had come to her in a moment of crisis 15 years ago - having discovered a text-only role-playing computer game that was conceptually similar to Dungeons and Dragons, he had begun...
Well, Harvard Business School leadership professor Leslie A. Perlow headed a study that reveals that less work can mean better work. What?? Time for some major disillusioning, after the jump...
...kids who experience that kind of trauma have a harder time focusing and learning. In another recent paper that he co-authored with Paschall, Straus writes that previous research has found that even after you control for parental education and occupation, children of parents who use corporal punishment are less likely than other kids to graduate from college...
...data suggest that most parents, especially those in the U.S., still spank their kids. On the basis of his international data, collected by surveying more than 17,000 college students in various countries, Straus found that countries with higher GDP tended to be those where corporal punishment was used less often. In the U.S., the tendency to hit also varies with income, along with geography and culture; it's most common among African-American families, Southern families, parents who were spanked as children themselves and those who identify themselves as conservative Christians...
...help that Merkel's hands are likely to be less tied in a coalition with the economically liberal Free Democrats than they were with the Social Democrats - a change that could push Germany closer to the French line on nuclear power and relations with Russia. But what isn't yet known is how warmly the Free Democrats will embrace closer cooperation with France. They won 14.6% of the vote, a record result for the party, and their leader, Guido Westerwelle, is likely to become the next Foreign Minister. His campaign focused on how to revive Germany's economy...