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In 1994, the Los Angeles Times spoke with some psychologists and sociologists to better understand why people love snooping so much. According to one doctor, it's a quest to know the person better.
Timmy wishes to do the opposite of what his parents tell him to do. It goes well at first, but when they tell him to be a good boy, he turns evil and attempts to destroy Dimmsdale. Note: The Bad Parent Hunter was based on the late crocodile hunter Steve Irwin. This segment was withdrawn from later broadcast after his death on September 4, 2006. [2]
The word appeared in the psychological literature in 1982, when the academic journal Social Problems published an article entitled "Pronoia" by Dr. Fred H. Goldner of Queens College in New York City, in which Goldner described a phenomenon opposite to paranoia and provided numerous examples of specific persons who displayed such characteristics: [1] [2]
Prepare to rejoice and check out the round-up gallery above for 10 supposedly bad things that are actually really good for you! Related: 4 "bad" snacks that are actually pretty healthy.
Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2] When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings ...
Whether you walk fast or slow, on a treadmill or in the woods, take a long meandering ramble or a quick 5-minute jaunt, walking feels good and is good for you. Period. Period. 6.
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of turning its virtual assistant Siri into a snoop that eavesdropped on the users of iPhones and other trendy ...
Air pollution is an example of a public bad. A public bad, in economics, is the symmetrical opposite of a public good. Air pollution is the most obvious example since it is non-excludable and non-rival, and negatively affects welfare.