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Crying helps, really

By: Ulrich Sollmann
17-01-2014
Body language, intercultural, psychology, science

Crying helps, really

Aside from removing toxic substances from our body, crying can also have the psychological benefit of lifting our mood and helping us to deal with painful situations.
Crying is thought to help reduce stress, which can have a damaging effect on our health and has been linked to a number of health problems including heart disease, high blood pressure, type-2 diabetes and obesity.
According to the Minnesota study, crying can help to wash chemicals linked to stress out of our body, one of the reasons we feel much better after a good cry.

http://canicry.com/

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Books are the revolution

By: Ulrich Sollmann
06-01-2014
intercultural, psychology, science, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books are the revolution

“But evidence from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that when students multitask while doing schoolwork, their learning is far spottier and shallower than if the work had their full attention. They understand and remember less, and they have greater difficulty transferring their learning to new contexts. So detrimental is this practice that some r…esearchers are proposing that a new prerequisite for academic and even professional success—the new marshmallow test of self-discipline—is the ability to resist a blinking inbox or a buzzing phone.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/05/multitasking_while_studying_divided_attention_and_technological_gadgets.html?wpisrc=most_viral

 

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Colors always will affect your mood

By: Ulrich Sollmann
20-12-2013
intercultural, nonverbal communication, psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colors always will affect your mood

One important effect which is part of nonverbal communication is the subtle interplay between Colors, emotional state and behavior. This is to be found all over the world, in all cultures. Though the affect is unique in the world, the specific stimulus of the certain colors is related to cultural expereince.

There’s no denying that color affects our mood. Those ………..

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Burning desire

By: Ulrich Sollmann
17-12-2013
intercultural, nonverbal communication, psychology, science, society
Burning desire

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves”

Federico Garcia Lorca

The burning desire is radically human. It mirrors the intensive inner energy, which is so to say the utmost emotional need to be expressed. It has to be expressed, whatever intensitiy you will feel.

To be quiet about it means in this sense not to express this desire not at all. to be quiet means to resist to it`s inner dynamics and rhythm. To be quiet means to reduce your life, your vitality, the respect you can have for yourself.

This burning desire keeps us going, keeps us moving out into the world. This burning desire carries and supports our emotions, our inner life. This burning desire structures our mind, our brain, which accompanies us to find orientation.

This burning desire is the essence of our awareness. Awareness of the world around me, the awareness of myself and the awareness of the others around me wo give sense to my life.

Overwhelming, blind discipline, steady and rigid rationality as well as fighting (self-) control are enemies of this burning desire.

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Growing lovesickness in Europe and China

By: Ulrich Sollmann
12-11-2013
intercultural, psychology, science, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growing lovesickness in Europe and China

More and more young people, around the age of 27 to 35 moan about lovesickness. Of course everybody knows that this feeling is a part of life. But it is also part of life that after some time of moaning people find a new partner with whom they relate.

The fact I talk about is relevant in so far as more and more of those people also complain about the shortness of their relationships. This means a love relationship lasts not so long as it did before. The people in Germany therefore already talk about “Generation lovesickness”.

Of course there are many reasons for this development in society and yet one can say that the speed, fragmentation and the essential change of the work is one main reason for that. People live in a spiral of always getting faster, higher, richer and so on. There is no ……..

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Rich people just care less

By: Ulrich Sollmann
02-11-2013
intercultural, News, nonverbal communication, psychology, science, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rich people just care less

Did you ever think about some social or human consequences of loving to earn money and to get rich?

Did you ever think about what will (perhaps if you don`t care) happen if you get rich and still believe you wouldl stay the same?

There might be one when you will realize this:

Turning a blind eye. Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down on people. Seeing right through them.

These metaphors for condescending or dismissive behavior are more than just descriptive. They suggest, to a surprisingly accurate extent, the social distance between those with greater power and those with less — a distance that goes beyond the realm of interpersonal interactions and may exacerbate the soaring inequality in the United States.

A growing body of recent research shows….

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If you marry a Chinese woman, then be prepared ;-)

By: Ulrich Sollmann
29-10-2013
Body language, News, nonverbal communication, psychology, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you marry a Chinese woman, then be prepared 😉

There’s an interesting and astonishing effect when marrying with a Chinese woman. Quite often when I talked to western men who married a Chinese woman, most of them agreed to the observed effect, which is like this:

Before the marriage Chinese women more often seem to be restrained, friendly, a little shy, ………

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Myths about eye contact

By: Ulrich Sollmann
18-10-2013
Body language, intercultural, News, nonverbal communication, psychology, science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Myths about eye contact

There’s a lot of information on eye-contact, the power of eye-contact. There are also a lot of stories and lore as well as there is a lot of scientific research being done.

So, hard to find orientation within this thicket of information, results and (personal or stereotype) opinion. There’s a new study which shows that eye-contact is

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Competition for the best!

By: Ulrich Sollmann
12-10-2013
intercultural, psychology, society

Competetion for the best!

It is not a surprise what I heard yesterday at the Business and Investors Forum China 2013 in Düsseldorf / Germany. I visited a special panel discussion about the competition in looking for high qualified new entries in business. The presented information was not new at all. Again the executives panel speakers underlined one main – principal – difference between China and Germany:

  • In China      students ……….
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Insanity means………..

By: Ulrich Sollmann
11-10-2013
intercultural, psychology, society

“Insanity means doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result”.

Albert Einstein
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