Andrzej Missala

 Last week I red an article tittled "Five ways boredom could be changing your behavior, for better or worse". The text was written by Wijnand Van Tilburg. The article is about the impact of boredom on our behaviour. On the one hand, boredom may seem rather trivial experience, a privilege of people who have a lot of time. On the other hand, scientist proved through various experiments that boredom can be both good and negative. The author of the text showed five changes wich you can experience: impulsiveness, worse mental health, aggression, looking for new things and finding meaning in life. Boredom is an emotional state that makes us change our behavior to be positive, such as looking for new things, learning new things, finding meaning in life, or negative, self-destructive, bad for us and our surroundings. It depends on the person and their situation. https://theconversation.com/five-ways-boredom-could-be-changing-your-behaviour-for-better-or-worse-155784

 Recently, I read an interesting article wrote by Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Fei Li and Jianfeng Feng entitled "How the pandemic may damage children's social intelligence". The text is about the negative effects of the lack of contact of younger children with their peers and the elderly. Usually children learn fast and develop skills such as sharing, conflict solving and empathy at a rapid pace. Before pandemia many children used to attend toddler groups or nursery before they started school. So even if they had no siblings, their emotional and social cognition could develop. I learned that social cognitive development begins in the first year of life, when children begin to develop “theory of mind”, which means understanding what others are thinking, which continues through age five. That is why contact with other people is so important at this age. U nfortunately during the COVID-19 lockdowns, many opportunities for social learning have been lost. S

  Recently I read an interesting article entitled "Narcissistic leaders: even children fall for their superficial charms" by Eddie Brummelman. The text tells about the problem of narcissism among children and leaders. I had some knowledge of Narcissism before, because I am interested in psychology and mental disorders. However, thanks to this article, I learned a lot of new things. Interestingly, narcissism develops already in early childhood. From the age of seven, there are stable differences between children in their levels of narcissism. As adult narcissists, they often appear as leaders in groups. The psychologists decided to check whether the same is happening among children. They conducted an experiment. The researchers recruited a group of 332 children aged 7 to 14. They assessed their level of narcissism and then asked the children to write down the names of their classmates whom they saw as "the true leader". It turned out that as many as 98% of the select