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Is the internet destroying monogamy? Traditionally, women might have had one or two boyfriends before getting married; now, they are encouraged to date lots of people in a quest to find a perfect partner.

Internet Addiction & Health Effects. by ANNA COCKE Aug. 14, Treatment centers for Internet addiction are emerging around the world. gaming, social networking and chat rooms. They theorized that Internet addicts’ use of these sites as replacements for real-life socializing was resulting in depression. However, there is debate as to.

Virtual Reality How you represent yourself in the virtual world of video games may affect how you behave toward others in the real world, according to new research published in Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers recruited undergraduates to participate in two supposedly unrelated studies.

The participants were randomly assigned to play as Superman a heroic avatar , Voldemort a villainous avatar , or a circle a neutral avatar. They played a game for 5 minutes in which they, as their avatars, were tasked with fighting enemies. Then, in a presumably unrelated study, they participated in a blind taste test. They were asked to taste and then give either chocolate or chili sauce to a future participant.