Psychology behind tattoos
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The Changing Tradition of Tattoo Culture
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For the first period of my life, getting tattoos was something that a large majority of my close friends were doing and seeing ink on people was more common than not. Tattoos are something that stay on your body forever, and comparing the number of students who will one day be parents and adults…
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Laurier professors connect tattoos and impulsivity
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Two Wilfrid Laurier University professors recently conducted a study which concluded that tattoos are linked to impulsivity. Dr. Anne Wilson, a psychology professor, and Dr. Bradley Ruffle, an economist, conducted their interdispinary study to find out more about the phenomena of tattoos. The study began with Ruffle returning from years in Israel and noticing the…
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Editorial: Social life without social media
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Although there are plenty of arguments against social media and smartphones on the basis of their addictiveness, their manipulative nature, their propensity to impair cognitive functioning and so on, I am going to focus this editorial on addressing a common argument in favour of them. Namely, that you should use them because they are…
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