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behaviour  // Posts tagged as "behaviour"

04 Dec Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

Amsterdam shipping containers used for punishment housing camps for “scum”

The plan echoes a proposal from Geert Wilders, the leader of a populist Dutch Right-wing party Photo: AFP/GETTY Amsterdam is to create “Scum villages” where nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city and rehoused in caravans … Continue reading

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28 May Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

Saudi woman makes a stand against feared religious police

As of Monday, the video was viewed more than 1,142,000 times Photo: YOUTUBE A YouTube video of a Saudi woman defying orders by the notorious religious police to leave a shopping centre because she is wearing nail polish has gone … Continue reading

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27 Feb Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

Upper classes ‘more likely to lie and cheat’

Psychologists suggested that the findings could help explain the origins of the banking crisis – with self-confident, wealthy bankers more likely to indulge in reckless behaviour Photo: REUTERS Members of the upper classes are more likely to lie, cheat and … Continue reading

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01 Dec Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

The Final Nail in the Coffin for #OWS

Comedian Adam Carolla breaks down the current occupy Wall Street movement in very frank terms (NSFW language). He dives into the cultural reasons that lead us into this situation. See also Helmut Schoeck’s Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour. And...

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27 Nov Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

Robotic prison guards to patrol South Korean prison

The prison guard robot prototype is set to go on trial in March BBC | Nov 25, 2011 Robot wardens are about to join the ranks of South Korea’s prison service. A jail in the eastern city of Pohang plans … Continue reading

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24 Sep Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

‘Shy’ Children At Risk Of Being Diagnosed With Mental Disorder

If your child is shy or sad sometimes, he or she could become easy targets for mental disorder diagnosis and psychotropic drugs. Quietness and introversion can easily be spun into “social anxiety” and new, wider DSM ...

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31 May Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

School punishes boys for playing at soldiers

SMH | May 31, 2011 by Murray Wardrop A British primary school which disciplined two seven-year-old boys for playing army games has been condemned by parents. Teachers ruled that the games amounted to “threatening behaviour” and reprimanded the two boys … Continue reading

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31 May Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

Children should avoid energy drinks due to ‘toxic’ levels of caffeine, warn doctors

Caffeine loaded: Doctors are warning against giving children energy drinks which contain stimulants linked to diabetes, heart problems, behaviour problems and even early death Energy drinks have up to 14 times more caffeine than other soft drinks, study finds Daily … Continue reading

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30 May Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

Video games being blamed for divorce as men ‘prefer World of Warcraft to their wives’

Game over: Increasing numbers of women who are filing for divorce have cited their husband’s obsession with video games as one reason for the split Daily Mail | May 31, 2011 By Lydia Warren A growing number of marriages are … Continue reading

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30 May Posted by in News and Headlines | Comments

Prince Harry and Princess Eugenie are ‘stained’ by support for ‘lewd’ nightclub scene

Stained: Prince Harry and Princess Eugenie leave their friend Guy Pelly’s Chelsea nightclub Photo: OPTICPHOTOS.COM Prince Harry and his cousin Princess Eugenie leave their friend Guy Pelly’s controversial Chelsea nightclub with drinks stains on their clothes. Prince Harry and Princess … Continue reading

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