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Wealthy cities seem to have it all. Expansive, well-manicured parks. Fine dining. Renowned orchestras and theaters. More trees. Wait, trees?
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College professors and students are in an arms race over cheating. Students find new sources for pre-written term papers; professors find new ways to check the texts they get for plagiarized material. But why are all these young people cheating? A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests one reason: income inequality, which decreases the general trust people have toward each other.

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Human capital endowments passed from father to son—perhaps in the form of smarts, advice, work ethic, or some other intangible—could be more important to a son's success than the size of dad's paycheck.

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A new study provides the best evidence to date that higher levels of income inequality in the United States actually lead to more deaths in the country over a period of years.

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Happy adolescents 'likely to have higher income' as adults

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Devon Clarke's curator insight, October 26, 2014 2:39 PM

Healthy brain development in children deals with a lot of factors, but happiness is one key thing to leading a child to be successful. In this article it describes how happy adolescents tend to become more successful when they are older and obtain higher wages (Doward & Graaf, 2012). I found this article to link well to an academic journal looking at if the sensitivity of parents led to having kind children  (Newton & Laible, 2014, p. 1808). It concluded that yes kind parenting skills do lead to having children who are more competent apposed to parents that are not as kind  (Newton & Laible, 2014, p. 1812). I think this academic journal links well to this article because it gives the realization that a child's happiness can directly related to their parents and how they are treated. This article also links well to Exploring Psychology in Modules in module 10 talking about different parenting styles (Myers & Myers, 2008, p. 149). The parenting style that they suggest to be the most effective for a child's self-esteem and social competences are those who are authoritative parents (Myers & Myers, 2008, p. 149). As Oswelt stated in Benefits of High Healthy Self-Esteem children who have higher self-esteems tend to be happier and have good relationships with friends (Oswelt, n.d.). It is important to make sure that a child has positive role models to make sure their happiness comes first. This article seemed to use good scientific reasoning giving good examples throughout the article (Doward & Graaf, 2012). The two publishers of the article also had good backgrounds and sources for where they got their information. One diverse group that this article has left out children who don't grow up in a healthy stable home environment. If a child is in an unstable setting it could lead to the possibility of a depressed child. 

 

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Doward, J., & Graaf, M. (2012, March 24). Happy adolescents 'likely to have higher income' as adults. The Guardian.

 

Myers, D. G., & Myers, D. G. (2008). Exploring psychology in modules. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.

 

Newton, E. K., Laible, D., Carlo, G., Steele, J. S., & McGinley, M. (2014). Do sensitive parents foster kind children, or vice versa? Bidirectional influences between children’s prosocial behavior and parental sensitivity. Developmental Psychology, 50(6), 1808-1816. doi:10.1037/a0036495

 

Oswelt, A. (n.d.). Benefits of Healthy High Self-Esteem - Self Esteem. Retrieved from http://www.behavioralconnections.org/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=37615