https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-baby-scientist/201801/violent-media-and-aggressive-behavior-in-children About 83 percent of the kids in the study found the gun, and most of them played with it. Of the kids who found it, 27 percent immediately gave it to the experimenter and the experimenter took it out of the room. Of the remaining 58 percent of kidsContinue Reading

http://theconversation.com/is-social-media-turning-people-into-narcissists-66573 Another approach is longitudinal, measuring narcissism and social media use over time and seeing if they are mutually reinforcing; that is, whether narcissism predicts increased social media use and whether that, in turn, predicts increasing narcissism. At least one study shows this pattern. It might also be the caseContinue Reading

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/these-businesses-are-boycotting-sexist-racist-websites This week, Kellogg’s announced it was pulling all advertising money from Breitbart, a controversial news site that has in the past featured sexist, racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic stories. “We regularly work with our media buying partners to ensure our ads do not appear on sites that aren’t aligned withContinue Reading

http://qz.com/629112/indonesia-to-facebook-google-and-twitter-pay-local-taxes-or-well-block-you/ Indonesian finance minister Bambang Brodjonegoro recently announced that all internet-based services will be required to pay local taxes and obtain “permanent establishment” status. The latter can be in the form of either a representative office or full-fledged company. He compared the arrangement to that already shared by Indonesia andContinue Reading