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The Independent reports:
Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo (who led the team of researchers who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment) has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected.
Zimbardo says (in this TED talk) there is a "crisis" amongst young men, a high number of whom are experiencing a "new form of addiction" to excessive use of pornography and video games. Citing the research he and his team conducted for the book, he says: "It begins to change brain function. It begins to change the reward centre of the brain, and produces a kind of excitement and addiction."
An article from Psychology Today, however, argues that there are no demonstrable scientific links between porn consumption and the disputed phenomenon called 'Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction.'
Could this problem be manifesting itself as the rise of the Hikikomori?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @07:32PM
emotional intelligence
A mere buzzword. Real intelligent people innovate in such a way as to increase our understanding of the universe; their time is wasted on often illogical cultural norms and trying not to offend the oversensitive. "emotional intelligence" was likely invented as a way to make people feel special for having something pretty much everyone on the planet has to some extent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @09:15PM
There is more than just one type [wikipedia.org] of intelligence. Nearly everyone acknowledges this too, commonly differentiating between "book smarts" and "street smarts". "Emotional intelligence" would be "interpersonal intelligence" under the 'multiple intelligences' theory.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @02:08AM
This is highly questionable theory to put it lightly. It's nowhere near accepted in mainstream science, hardly something that can be cited as a fact. Never the less, SJWs love it because it lets them claim that more people are special snowflake, which is reflected on the SJW dominated Wikipedia.
Here is a more critical article [wikia.com] which describes some of the problems with this theory.
(Score: 2) by naubol on Tuesday May 12 2015, @02:09AM
Reproduction isn't important?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2015, @02:18AM
Not when there is around 7 billion people on the planet. And if we were in danger of extinction, people would drop their petty, shallow standards and start mating. In an ideal world, people would strive to be logical, but that is not the case, and this "emotional intelligence" business only encourages the opposite.