I really liked this article; I thought that it was illuminating. Barbara Fredrickson, the author, writes about the results a study she conducted that highlight a correlation between one's ability to interact with others to one's health and how this balance is never set in stone. Her claims about how our social abilities are built and change reflect what I have seen in the children that I babysit for. The kids with little to no screen time are the ones who interact with me the most, while those with unlimited access to screens are the most uncommunicative. I think that it's really cool that Fredrickson's study gives scientific evidence to the nature/nurture debate and especially interesting that our "plasticity" is ever-changing. I'd like to find out more about how two people's neuro-pathways can "come to mirror each other," because it sounds like an intriguing area of study.
This article is really interesting to me because so much of our lives now involve phones and technology. I think it’s important to be reminded how much of an impact technology can have on our lives because I don’t think we always realize the effects of it. I think the study that was done was really interesting. The people who went away for 6 weeks to workshop and had no access to technology were able to communicate and connect more than the people who had unlimited access to technology. This is going to become a huge problem if people aren’t able to connect with other people because of technology. Communicating and connecting are very important aspects of people’s lives.
I really liked this article; I thought that it was illuminating. Barbara Fredrickson, the author, writes about the results a study she conducted that highlight a correlation between one's ability to interact with others to one's health and how this balance is never set in stone. Her claims about how our social abilities are built and change reflect what I have seen in the children that I babysit for. The kids with little to no screen time are the ones who interact with me the most, while those with unlimited access to screens are the most uncommunicative. I think that it's really cool that Fredrickson's study gives scientific evidence to the nature/nurture debate and especially interesting that our "plasticity" is ever-changing. I'd like to find out more about how two people's neuro-pathways can "come to mirror each other," because it sounds like an intriguing area of study.
ReplyDeleteThis article is really interesting to me because so much of our lives now involve phones and technology. I think it’s important to be reminded how much of an impact technology can have on our lives because I don’t think we always realize the effects of it. I think the study that was done was really interesting. The people who went away for 6 weeks to workshop and had no access to technology were able to communicate and connect more than the people who had unlimited access to technology. This is going to become a huge problem if people aren’t able to connect with other people because of technology. Communicating and connecting are very important aspects of people’s lives.
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