�We all know the famous saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words volition never ache me," but is this proverb actually true?
According to some researchers, dustup may pack a harder punch that we realise. Psychologists Zhansheng Chen and Kipling D. Williams of Purdue University, Julie Fitness of Macquarie University, and Nicola C. Newton of the University of New South Wales found that the pain of strong-arm events may fade with time, patch the painful sensation of social occurrences canful be re-instantiated through memory retrievals.
The researchers put up four-spot experiments to demonstrate this finding. In the number one two experiments, participants reported the amount of nuisance they felt while nerve-wracking to live over a physically or a socially irritating experience. After writing elaborate accounts of each experience, the participants reported how they felt.
The utmost two experiments were similar to the first two, except participants were asked to work on some cognitive tasks with different levels of difficulty subsequently reliving a socially or physically painful event.
The results, published in the August government issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, ar clear. Participants who had to recall a socially painful feel reported stronger feelings of pain and relived the experience more intensely than those wHO had to recall a physically painful event. Furthermore, participants wHO only had to recall a physically painful event performed better on the difficult genial tasks in comparison to those world Health Organization had to relive a socially sore event.
A possible explanation for these results could be the evolution of the human brain, specifically in an area called the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for for complex thinking, perception and language processing.
"The evolution of the cerebral cortex surely improved the ability of human beings to create and adapt; to subroutine in and with groups, communities, and culture; and to respond to pain in the neck associated with social interactions," the authors wrote. "However, the cerebral cortex english hawthorn also have had an unintended effect of allowing humans to relive, re-experience, and tolerate from social pain."
Article: "When Hurt Will Not Heal: Exploring the Capacity to Relive Social and Physical Pain"
Author: Zhansheng Chen
Psychological Science is ranked among the teetotum 10 general psychology journals for encroachment by the Institute for Scientific Information.
Source: Catherine West
Association for Psychological Science
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Thursday, 4 September 2008
Monday, 25 August 2008
Weekend offers a "Race" to the summer finish line
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Box-office grosses will start to fade this weekend as needs as a summer tangent.
The comparable period from 2007 rung up less than $109 meg, the second-smallest tally of the ticket office season. A similarly underwhelming industry performance is likely this weekend, even with four new titles striking the market place in wide of the mark release.
Still, one of the market entrants is well positioned to capture the flag of the summer's penultimate ticket booth session, thanks to relatively weak competition from new releases and holdovers alike. "Death Race," Universal's remaking of the 1975 thriller "Death Race 2000," will try to go for the gold -- supported primarily by young male moviegoers -- with a bow in the mid to high-teen millions.
DreamWorks/Paramount's R-rated comedy "Tropic Thunder" could drop as much as 50 percent or so from its chart-topping opening session. That could discover it winning less than $13 one thousand thousand this weekend while motionless potentially competing for second place.
But Sony's PG-13 comedy "The House Bunny," star Anna Faris ("Scary Movie"), also looks likely for the low-teen millions and could outpace "Tropic" if its grosses climb into the midteens, mostly on interest from young females.
Warner Bros.' box office behemoth "The Dark Knight" likely testament finish third gear or fourth during its sixth frame of reference, with $10 million or so. But two extra wide openers look improbable to pass water it extinct of the single-digit millions.
Rated PG, the Ice Cube/Keke Palmer-starring "The Longshots" -- a family football tarradiddle from MGM and Dimension directed by rocker-turned-helmer Fred Durst -- hasn't shown much strong suit in prerelease tracking. But the topliner usually can buoy deliver at least middle-single-digit millions from his core fan base alone, so a late surge of interest in the moving picture could control it climb up just a bit higher during its opening frame.
Fox's PG-13 comedy "The Rocker" might want five days to hand a similar range. Having earned some positive early buzz, the Rainn Wilson-starring comedy unspooled Wednesday to stimulate additional word-of-mouth, simply its first-day tally was just $600,000.�
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Thursday, 7 August 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008
Watson completes tumour treatment
Opera singer Russell Watson has completed a five-week course of radiotherapy to eradicate a recurrent brain tumour.
The 41-year-old singer, known as The Voice, described his treatment as "no walk in the park".
Watson's manager Giles Baxendale said: "He's finished his treatment but he doesn't know whether he is in the clear yet."
"He's doing well, he's a little tired, a bit drained, but he's upbeat that it's finished."
Watson will now have to have regular scans to determine whether or not the treatment has been successful.
In a message on his website, Watson said: "I've had my moments under that machine where I just wanted to stop the bloody thing and walk away."
"I'm not out of the woods yet. I dearly wanted to keep the side-effects to a minimum and I've been keeping myself fit and healthy as I can, but I'm afraid they've caught up with me, and I don't mind admitting I've not been myself."
"I'm just so lucky I've had friends, family, and of course my fans to help me through; I really don't think I could do this without the support I've had," the singer wrote.
Watson underwent surgery to remove a brain tumour last October. It was his second operation on the tumour in 12 months.
The 41-year-old singer, known as The Voice, described his treatment as "no walk in the park".
Watson's manager Giles Baxendale said: "He's finished his treatment but he doesn't know whether he is in the clear yet."
"He's doing well, he's a little tired, a bit drained, but he's upbeat that it's finished."
Watson will now have to have regular scans to determine whether or not the treatment has been successful.
In a message on his website, Watson said: "I've had my moments under that machine where I just wanted to stop the bloody thing and walk away."
"I'm not out of the woods yet. I dearly wanted to keep the side-effects to a minimum and I've been keeping myself fit and healthy as I can, but I'm afraid they've caught up with me, and I don't mind admitting I've not been myself."
"I'm just so lucky I've had friends, family, and of course my fans to help me through; I really don't think I could do this without the support I've had," the singer wrote.
Watson underwent surgery to remove a brain tumour last October. It was his second operation on the tumour in 12 months.
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Shannon Noll
Artist: Shannon Noll
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Lift
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
That's What I'm Talking About
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Pop-rocker Shannon Noll rose wine to stardom down under later earning second best honors in the 2003 debut season of the telecasting amateur show window Aussie Idol. Born September 16, 1975, in remote Condobolin, New South Wales, Noll spent his plastic years shearing sheep ahead joining his siblings in the band Cypress. Upon entering Australian Idol, Noll emerged as a major crowd favorite, and the series' finale, which pit him against eventual victor Guy Sebastian, was Aussie television's highest-rated broadcast of the 2003 season. Despite the loss Noll earned a recording contract with Sony BMG, and in early 2004 issued his debut single, a extend of Moving Pictures' 1982 exponent ballad "What About Me," which non only topped Australian charts simply too reached the figure deuce pip in Ireland. His first LP, That's What I'm Talking About, too went number 1, buoyed by the extremely rated tv set special Up Close with Shannon Noll. In early 2005, Noll toured in a fresh production of the classic stage musical Grease. His soph album, Lift, followed mid-year, debuting at number one and generating a series of Top Ten singles including "Radiate," "Now I Run," and the title cut.
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Shorty Street stars bleed for their profession
Shortland Street is the life blood of Kiwi actors and now two of the TV2 soap's stars are repaying the favour.
Will Hall, who plays spunky Dr Kip Denton and Nisha Madhan (nurse Shanti Kumari) rolled up their sleeves on Friday to donate blood on set to mark World Blood Donor Day.
It was only the second time Will, who has a fear of needles, had given blood.
"When I was living in Wellington I saw the (mobile donation) van and I thought, `I should do it, I should do it but I pussied out'," he told Sunday News.
Will manned up after reading how in the past year only four percent of the eligible population had donated blood and every year the NZ Blood Service lost 3000 donors.
Will said he was fine after donating and it was a "humble thing to do".
He now planned to "step up to the needle" more regularly.
Co-star Kiel McNaughton who plays the role of nursing manager Scotty was on hand to support his colleagues.
With his wife due to have their third child, he was relieved to know if any complications occur, blood will be hand.
The Shorty Street stars were also given a first hand account of how important the donations were by Zoe Donegan.
The 20-year-old lost a significant amount of blood during surgery to remove a rare brain tumour when she was 12 and needed three units of blood to replace what was lost.
Despite being "weirded out" by it at first she now realised how important that blood was and encouraged everyone to donate.
The NZ Blood Service needs over 3000 units of blood every week.
Over 42,000 New Zealanders need blood or blood products each year.
Each donation can save up to three lives.
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Leona Lewis And David Beckham's Olympic Appearance
Leona Lewis and David Beckham have qualified for the Olympics… kind of.
The British pair will both appear at the “spectacular closing ceremony” for the Beijing Olympics this summer, as preparation for the handover for the 2012 London event.
Soccer star Becks will fly in from his Los Angeles home, whilst Lewis will perform in front of an global audience which could top 150 million.
A source tells the Sunday Mirror, “Leona and Beckham have accepted the invitation to sprinkle some stardust on the show. They epitomise what London 2012 is about.
“Leona is a young global star from London who has risen from nothing. Becks has glamour and a profile around the world. He was also a key figure in the bid to win the Games for London."
The British pair will both appear at the “spectacular closing ceremony” for the Beijing Olympics this summer, as preparation for the handover for the 2012 London event.
Soccer star Becks will fly in from his Los Angeles home, whilst Lewis will perform in front of an global audience which could top 150 million.
A source tells the Sunday Mirror, “Leona and Beckham have accepted the invitation to sprinkle some stardust on the show. They epitomise what London 2012 is about.
“Leona is a young global star from London who has risen from nothing. Becks has glamour and a profile around the world. He was also a key figure in the bid to win the Games for London."
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