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Divorce clusters in the country. is it a phenomenon here? >> it is. social behavior can be contagious. one study showed it could be contagious through friendships, two degrees away. if you were to get a divorce, friends of friends who may not know about you but only hear about it, they could divide to get a divorce. group norms change. not so long ago the f word could be the worse thing you could say, and now it's in american literature all the time. and the thing that is important that we should consider is not that divorce is contagious within families, it's that poor relationship skills are...

Thinking. decreases the likelihood of pro social behavior. increases what you might think of as desensitization. we now know that that is true both in the immediate situation, that is, shortly after playing such a game. but it also is the case -- you get the same results in terms of long-term effects. >> right. >> so repeated exposure to the violent video games increases the likelihood, for example, of getting into fights at school. >> and it's similar just to -- just correct me if i'm wrong. in my research, you say it has the same effect as violent movies, essentially. right? >> yes. there's ...

I hope you budget that. >> there is that family where they have like 12 or 15 kids, but they support themselves. >> this is nuts. from baby deploying to being annoying. do dietary quirks make bigger jerks? those who eat organic food are just as awful as we thought they were. according to the social psychology and personality science journal, people who pass on pesticides tend to have harsher moral judgments of others and reduce the pro social behavior. said one researcher of the subjects given organics, quote, there was something given that made them feel better about themselves, and that ma...

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