Creativity and Childhood Adversity
In a relatively recent study looking to examine the cognitive effects of adverse conditions in childhood, 103 adult participants were tested for inhibition and shifting, an aspect of cognitive flexibility thought to underlie creativity. The participants’ childhoods were assessed in terms of harshness, related to socioeconomic status, and in unpredictability, related to lots of random change such as people often moving in and out of his or her home. A condition was also included where subjects read an unsettling news story to encourage feelings of uncertainty. The results showed that when participants read the news story, “those who had experienced unpredictable but not harsh childhoods performed worse at inhibition …show more content…
Riot’s research found that only about 1% of players were consistently toxic, only producing about 5% of the toxicity in the game, while the rest were all typical players simply having a bad day. Clearly, banning the consistently toxic players would only have a minor effect on the community’s overall attitude.
One solution tested, playing in-game messages encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad behavior, showed considerable results: an 8.3% decrease in negative attitudes, 6.2% decrease in verbal abuse, and an 11% decrease in offensive language. Unfortunately, while these results are fascinating, especially since message color was also a factor tested, they weren’t substantial enough to be a real solution to the community’s toxic behavior. Ultimately, the introduction of the Tribunal, which allows players to serve as judge and jury to their peers by reviewing chat logs of repeatedly reported players, had the greatest positive effect on behavior in offenders. Additionally, it was found that the more prompt and detailed the explanations for bans were, the better the offender’s subsequent behavior …show more content…
Eddie Brummelman, along with colleagues, is attempting to challenge the view that the increase in parental concern with raising children’s self-esteem is the cause of the increase in narcissism in recent decades. While the may seem similar, narcissism and self-esteem are statistically only weakly correlated. Narcissists feel superior to others while people with high self-esteem simply feel satisfied with themselves as a person.
Ultimately, Brummelman and his colleagues attribute the increase in narcissism to parent’s increased attempts at raising self-esteem that are intended for that purpose but actually raise narcissism. “Narcissism is cultivated by parental overvaluation” while, on the other hand, self-esteem is “cultivated by parental warmth.” This seems like an accurate evaluation. The issue is that parents are mistakenly raising narcissism in their children by overpraising, overestimating, and over-claiming their children’s qualities, thinking that this will create a more positive and healthy
In a relatively recent study looking to examine the cognitive effects of adverse conditions in childhood, 103 adult participants were tested for inhibition and shifting, an aspect of cognitive flexibility thought to underlie creativity. The participants’ childhoods were assessed in terms of harshness, related to socioeconomic status, and in unpredictability, related to lots of random change such as people often moving in and out of his or her home. A condition was also included where subjects read an unsettling news story to encourage feelings of uncertainty. The results showed that when participants read the news story, “those who had experienced unpredictable but not harsh childhoods performed worse at inhibition …show more content…
Riot’s research found that only about 1% of players were consistently toxic, only producing about 5% of the toxicity in the game, while the rest were all typical players simply having a bad day. Clearly, banning the consistently toxic players would only have a minor effect on the community’s overall attitude.
One solution tested, playing in-game messages encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad behavior, showed considerable results: an 8.3% decrease in negative attitudes, 6.2% decrease in verbal abuse, and an 11% decrease in offensive language. Unfortunately, while these results are fascinating, especially since message color was also a factor tested, they weren’t substantial enough to be a real solution to the community’s toxic behavior. Ultimately, the introduction of the Tribunal, which allows players to serve as judge and jury to their peers by reviewing chat logs of repeatedly reported players, had the greatest positive effect on behavior in offenders. Additionally, it was found that the more prompt and detailed the explanations for bans were, the better the offender’s subsequent behavior …show more content…
Eddie Brummelman, along with colleagues, is attempting to challenge the view that the increase in parental concern with raising children’s self-esteem is the cause of the increase in narcissism in recent decades. While the may seem similar, narcissism and self-esteem are statistically only weakly correlated. Narcissists feel superior to others while people with high self-esteem simply feel satisfied with themselves as a person.
Ultimately, Brummelman and his colleagues attribute the increase in narcissism to parent’s increased attempts at raising self-esteem that are intended for that purpose but actually raise narcissism. “Narcissism is cultivated by parental overvaluation” while, on the other hand, self-esteem is “cultivated by parental warmth.” This seems like an accurate evaluation. The issue is that parents are mistakenly raising narcissism in their children by overpraising, overestimating, and over-claiming their children’s qualities, thinking that this will create a more positive and healthy