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Body image and self confidence: A learned social construct. In this article about body image and self-confidence, the writer talks about how certain comments, habits and other’s insecurities during childhood can generate lifelong body insecurities. She debates, being based on social studies, how parents, from extremely young ages, influence their children’s opinion about their bodies and about …

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Bobo doll experiment: We are social and community beings The article exposes the Bobo doll experiment, an experiment about behavior learning and social imitation where three groups of children were created. The first group would be made to see a person showing aggressive tendency while playing with toys. The second group, on the contrary, was …

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Animal experimentation: Are human lives above animal ones? This article I found in Gale International talks about animal experimentation, its contributions and consequences, the regulations it has and finally some alternatives to it. The writer presents animal testing from two points of view: for and against it. Further, he gives reasons for each opinion, even …

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Rhythm 0: Our cruelty is retained by consequences. This brief and visual post talks about Rhythm 0, a performance in which the author, Marina Abramović, let people do whatever they wanted to her with 72 different objects without any consequences. People started doing normal things with innofensive objects, but when they understood that she was …

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Saying NO: A way to value our YES. In this article, a group of mid-career environmental social scientists discourse talk about their experience during a year in which they agreed to say no to any proposal they received. The objective was to learn and get used to saying ‘no’, what, as they say, gives you …

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Immigration: Government promoted hate. In this dissertation about immigration, the author tries to make a general explanation of the topic, exposing it in different sections. He debates the motivations and the impact of immigration and most of the problems it implies.  Despite the fact that the writer focuses on US immigration, it is possible to …

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The photo 51: A story of science and greed. In this aperture, the writer explains that Rosalind E. Franklin was a memorable scientist, who achieved a clear photo of DNA, the photo 51, which demonstrated that DNA was a helical structure. Her discovery brought an enormous advancement for molecular biology and human knowledge in many …

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Lina Medina: Dehumanizing in the name of science. This article, which explains that, under certain conditions, it is possible for a child to get pregnant, talks about the case of Lina Medina, a girl who gave birth when she was seven years old. In fact, it is believed that she began menstruating when she was …

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Milgram Experiment: ‘I was only following orders’ As the article explains, the Milgram Experiment is an experiment that explores the boundaries of human obedience to authority. In order to achieve it, many subjects were told to give shocks, that increased as the experiment went on, to another (fake) person who they couldn’t see, but could …

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Paris Syndrome: The last step of globalization. In this article by LiveScience, the author exposes and debates about the Paris syndrome, a phenomenon that makes people feel anxious and deeply disappointed when visiting a place that is romanticized in their culture. The name “Paris syndrome” comes from the popularity of this phenomenon with Japanese people …

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