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Head-like-a-carp t1_j8d7xpj wrote

Reply to Cultivating a sense of perspective about pet loss can lead to post-traumatic growth after their death by chrisdh79

"Cultivating a sense of perspective about pet loss?" Here is what you need to know. Your pet if it is a cat or dog will die before you. You know that when you bring them home. If you are unable to clear that emotional reality you are going to be in trouble. A pet can bring you joy everyday but not a lifetime of companionship. Deepen your appreciation of the moment don't cling to it.

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Magusreaver t1_j8d770n wrote

Reply to comment by Maktesh in Knowing we like a song takes only seconds of listening, new psychology research finds by thebelsnickle1991

And this is how I fell in love with Tom Waits, and Nick Cave. An out of state friend talked about much I would love them, they were never on *mtv or the radio.. so just got them from EarXstacy (record store) and then spent the next couple weeks regretting every dollar spent. Then over a couple more weeks I fell in love with them. Now 25 years later I still listen to them almost daily.

*I had heard Nick Cave on Mtv once with the song Where The Wild Roses Grow, it's an amazing song, but not what the album sounds like as a whole.

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MonitorPowerful5461 t1_j8d5snm wrote

Reply to comment by 1122334411 in Study links Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy in Africa to the use of media platforms that spread misinformation. The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa was accompanied by unprecedented and recurring waves of misinformation and disinformation. by Wagamaga

COVID infections rates in SSA are low, but far higher than the numbers, for a few reasons

  1. Good hygiene - diseases kill, without good hygiene you die
  2. Terrible data collection - governments do not have the capability to accurately assess how many citizens have COVID (nor do they want to)
  3. Being sick is considered shameful - if you’re sick with COVID, it’s perceived that that means you are “dirty”, and so people pretend they are not sick
  4. COVID is often mistaken for other diseases

This is true for a lot of diseases, not necessarily just in SSA. Malaria is one of the only “socially acceptable” diseases - it has a tendency to overshadow everything else since it is so common and devastating.

The thing with malaria is, even if it doesn’t kill you, it can make you incredibly tired for months on end. So you can’t work. And that in itself can kill you

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geoff199 OP t1_j8d5h2c wrote

Reply to Children as young as 4 years old show evidence of a network in the brain found in adults that tackles difficult cognitive problems, a new fMRI study found. Researchers were surprised, thinking it may take longer for the multiple demand network to differentiate in humans. by geoff199

From the Journal of Neuroscience: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/02/06/JNEUROSCI.1460-22.2023

Abstract:

Abstract

Executive function (EF) is essential for humans to effectively engage in cognitively demanding tasks. In adults, EF is subserved by frontoparietal regions in the multiple demand (MD) network, which respond to various cognitively demanding tasks. However, children initially show poor EF and prolonged development. Do children recruit the same network as adults? Is it functionally and connectionally distinct from adjacent language cortex, as in adults? And is this activation or connectivity dependent on age or ability? We examine task-dependent (spatial working memory and passive language tasks) and resting state functional data in 44 adults (18-38 years, 68% female) and 37 children (4-12 years, 35% female). Subject-specific functional regions of interest (ss-fROIs) show bilateral MD network activation in children. In both children and adults, these MD ss-fROIs are not recruited for linguistic processing and are connectionally distinct from language ss-fROIs. While MD activation was lower in children than in adults (even in motion- and performance-matched groups), both showed increasing MD activation with better performance, especially in right hemisphere ss-fROIs. We observe this relationship even when controlling for age, cross-sectionally and in a small longitudinal sample of children. These data suggest that the MD network is selective to cognitive demand in children, is distinct from adjacent language cortex, and increases in selectivity as performance improves. These findings show that neural structures subserving domain-general EF emerge early and are sensitive to ability even in children. This research advances understanding of how high-level human cognition emerges and could inform interventions targeting cognitive control.

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Billbat1 t1_j8d4x2k wrote

Reply to comment by Penis_Envy_Peter in Study links Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy in Africa to the use of media platforms that spread misinformation. The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa was accompanied by unprecedented and recurring waves of misinformation and disinformation. by Wagamaga

theres plenty of corruption in uk and canada. i wouldnt say americans are more susceptible to corruption. when america was forming there was a strong sense of the american dream. of working hard to make sure you had a good life. its a useful idea to motivate people back then. but that idea has stuck around and now theres still a lot of people who think its up to the individual to work hard to buy healthcare.

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Penis_Envy_Peter t1_j8d4cmo wrote

Reply to comment by Billbat1 in Study links Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy in Africa to the use of media platforms that spread misinformation. The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa was accompanied by unprecedented and recurring waves of misinformation and disinformation. by Wagamaga

To have the capacity to do right and opting to not from greed is worse than failing to do so as a result of inability. The US is hyper developed and morally bankrupt.

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Xilmi t1_j8d2ym3 wrote

Reply to Study links Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy in Africa to the use of media platforms that spread misinformation. The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa was accompanied by unprecedented and recurring waves of misinformation and disinformation. by Wagamaga

My hypothesis as to what is the most reliable predictor about someone's willingness to take a vaccine is how much they trust those who are promoting it.

So in this regard the question we should ask ourselves is:

What could be the reason that "media platforms that spread misinformation" were considered to be more trustworthy than those who promoted the vaccine?

I think censorship played a big role in reducing trustworthiness as it's still historically tainted with a negative image of being used mostly by totalitarian regimes. To people for whom freedom of speech is an important value, the attempt of silencing dissent might have been considered as so appalling, that they lost their trust.

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