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The 80s Teen Heartthrob Who Made Me Believe There Was More To Life Than Pom-Poms And Keggers

The 80s Teen Heartthrob Who Made Me Believe There Was More To Life Than Pom-Poms And Keggers

Published by Jenni Sidey

There are celebrity crushes, and then there are the ones that actually tell you something true about yourself. The celebrity crushes of the late ’80s and early ’90s were a whole ecosystem. And if you were a certain kind of teenage girl, you had your loyalties mapped out like a battle plan. Mine were complicated. I could appreciate the baby-faced charm of the others just fine. But Christian Slater was something else entirely. Christian Slater was the one who made me realize I didn’t actually want what I was supposed to want. He wasn’t safe. He wasn’t a poster you bought because everyone else had one. He was the guy in the back of the room who already knew the whole thing was a performance and found it vaguely hilarious. For a girl who felt more at home with a book than a pom-pom, that was everything. In the late 1980s, teenage heartthrob Christian Slater made me believe there was more to life than pom-poms and keggers Cinemarque-New World / Kobal / Shutterstock It was …

If A Young Girl Admires You, A Survey Found That Has Nothing To Do With Looks

If A Young Girl Admires You, A Survey Found That Has Nothing To Do With Looks

Published by Jenni Sidey

A survey found that a majority of young girls don’t choose who they admire based on their appearance, despite societal pressure that tells them they should. Researchers concluded in the past that people judge how “human” they think a woman is based on how attractive she is, while the measure for men is usually intelligence. Young girls are constantly being told that their worth is dependent on how they look and that they should judge others the same way. Thankfully, it looks like they’re rejecting this false notion. Young girls are actually more likely to base their admiration on a person’s abilities. Girl Scouts of the USA surveyed members between 5 and 13 and found that 85% of the girls “admired people for what they can do, not how they look,” according to a report from Good Good Good. cottonbro studio | Pexels It can be difficult for adults to maintain this perspective at times, so Sarah Keating, the Vice President of Girl and Volunteer Experience for Girl Scouts, said these youngsters are setting a …

Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains

Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Researchers are growing increasingly suspicious that outsourcing intellectual tasks to AI is causing a range of cognitive deficits. A new study adds a wrinkle worth paying attention to: that use of the bots can eat away at users’ faith in their own abilities, resulting in lower confidence in their own independent reasoning. The new peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior and flagged by TIME, found that those who showed a heavy reliance on AI were more likely to admit chatbots were “thinking” for them — and seem to show decreased confidence in their own ideas. By the same token, participants who took control over their AI’s output by editing, questioning, or scrapping it showed a greater confidence and sense of ownership over the final output, even though the tools used were the same. As the study’s author Sarah Baldeo — a PhD candidate in AI and neuroscience at Middlesex University — told TIME, the …

People Who Rarely Feel Lost In Life Usually Follow These 11 Internal Rules

People Who Rarely Feel Lost In Life Usually Follow These 11 Internal Rules

Published by Jenni Sidey

Feeling lost doesn’t always come from a lack of options. It often comes from not having a clear way to filter those options or decide what matters most. When everything feels equally important, or equally uncertain, it becomes harder to move forward with any real sense of direction. Some people seem to navigate that uncertainty more steadily. They don’t have everything figured out, but they operate with a set of internal guidelines that keep them oriented. These rules aren’t always something they’ve written down or even consciously defined, but they show up in how they make decisions, respond to change, and keep moving forward. People who rarely feel lost in life usually follow these 11 internal rules 1. They make decisions based on direction, not certainty PeopleImages / Shutterstock Clarity doesn’t always come before action. Instead of waiting for a perfect answer, they choose a path that feels aligned and adjust as they go. This keeps momentum from stalling when things aren’t fully clear. A decision becomes a starting point rather than a final answer. …

Women Who Are Done Saying Yes To Everything Usually Have 11 High Value Traits

Women Who Are Done Saying Yes To Everything Usually Have 11 High Value Traits

Published by Jenni Sidey

Many women are socialized into agreeableness and saying “yes” for the well-being of others, even if it comes at their own expense. Even experiencing a fear of missing out, often coined “FOMO,” lies in that people-pleasing realm where people worry about being ostracized and socially excluded by not following societal standards of falling victim to peer pressure. However, the more internally gratified someone’s self-worth is, the more willing they are to follow their own wisdom, meaning, and care. It’s women who are done saying yes to everything and stop feeling FOMO who usually have high-value traits like this, and are tired of living life for everyone else. Women who are done saying yes to everything and have no FOMO usually have 11 high value traits: 1. They know their worth Kinga | Shutterstock When a woman’s self-worth comes from inside, she stops saying “yes” to things she doesn’t want to do and tolerating misbehavior for people who don’t deserve her time or effort. She crafts alone time, routines, and relationships that allow her to feel an …

New research links personality traits to confidence in recognizing artificial intelligence deception

New research links personality traits to confidence in recognizing artificial intelligence deception

Published by José Betancourt

A study published in the journal F1000Research in 2023 suggests that specific personality traits, particularly honesty and agreeableness, can predict how confident young adults feel in their ability to spot deepfake videos. The findings provide evidence that our underlying psychological makeup shapes our perceived vulnerability to sophisticated artificial intelligence deception. Deepfake technology relies on artificial intelligence to create highly realistic, manipulated videos or audio recordings of real people. These programs study thousands of images or voice clips to generate synthetic media depicting people saying or doing things that never actually happened. As these digital forgeries become harder to distinguish from reality, they pose a growing threat to personal privacy and accurate information. Scientists wanted to understand why some individuals feel more capable of recognizing these digital forgeries than others. A person’s belief in their own capability to succeed in a specific situation is known in psychology as self-efficacy. Past research indicates that self-efficacy is often heavily influenced by fundamental personality traits. By examining these underlying psychological characteristics, the researchers aimed to map out how different …

The One Skill A Clinical Psychologist Says Matters More Than A Kid’s Grades, Talent, Or Confidence

The One Skill A Clinical Psychologist Says Matters More Than A Kid’s Grades, Talent, Or Confidence

Published by Jenni Sidey

One of the major underlying issues that I see plaguing clients is rigidity. They find it very difficult to be flexible about change, which is a tremendous problem, as change is constant. Here are some examples of inflexibility and the inability to change your perspective when needed. Parents who find it difficult to allow their kids to have more independence as they get older People who cannot get back on track after a breakup or divorce, and assume that they will be single forever People who base their entire identity on a certain career path, and cannot conceive of any other option, even if they are actually miserable in this career Couples who feel stuck in their unhappy marriages and cannot see any possibility for change, like in depressed marriages Teenagers who lose a friendship and cannot believe that it would be possible to make other friends Young adults who are unhappy with how dependent they are on their parents, but think they are too weak or ineffectual to function independently (financially or emotionally) When …

Consumer Confidence Rose Slightly in March, But Faith in the Future Falls | National News

Consumer Confidence Rose Slightly in March, But Faith in the Future Falls | National News

Published by Sam Flores

Consumer confidence edged up in March, despite the rising cost of gasoline and other goods from the war in Iran, the Conference Board said on Tuesday. The March reading of the organization’s consumer confidence index rose to 91.8 from 91, with the present situation index that is a measure of consumers’ current assessment of the economy increased 4.6 points to 123.3 (1985=100). The expectations index, a forward-looking measure, dropped by 1.7 points to 70.9. “Consumer confidence ticked up again in March, as a modest improvement in consumers’ views of current conditions outweighed a slight downshift in expectations for the future,” Dana M. Peterson, chief economist at the business group, wrote in an analysis. “Three of five components of the Index firmed in March, and overall confidence improved modestly for a second month. Nonetheless, the Index has been on a general downward trend since 2021.” Consumers under 35 and those 55 and over continued to moderate their optimism, while those 55-plus were the most pessimistic. By income, confidence over the past six months continued to dip …