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PSYCHOLOGY: how addiction affects our brain

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  INTRODUCTION Friends, do you know that the notification system of Instagram is designed in such a way that if you share any picture on Instagram and your friends like it, then Instagram will not show those likes at once. Means for a long time you will be shown 0 likes in it. But when a little more likes will come on those photos. Then Instagram will send us notification. This will happen after initially posting the photo, we must be thinking that no one has liked it so far, was it such a bad photo.  Now it will happen that the feeling of a negative outcome will be triggered in our mind. And after that when the notification of Instagram will come that 50 likes have come on your photo, then we will have extreme positive feelings. And there will be a lot of dopamine release in our brain. And because of this extreme negative and positive feelings, very soon our habit will be formed, and we will go on getting addicted to Instagram. Friends, the algorithm of all these social m...

Parasocial relationship: illusion of relationship.

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PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIP A female fan of Varun Dhawan threatened to kill his girlfriend Natasha Dalal outside his residence The fan was waiting to meet Varun outside his house for a long time. When the security guard informed the fan that the actor won’t be able to meet her as he is busy with his upcoming film’s promotion. She started creating ruckus outside the actor’s house. Security guards informed to a news website that, she was waiting for the couple of hours. She was insisting that she meet him then and there. He was pretty tired from the days work and wanted to rest. She refused to leave and got into a squabble. Initially, she said she will hurt herself. When the security still didn’t get her through to Varun Dhawan, she threw a fit. She kept mumbling how she will harm Natasha. Guys! This was the scary example of parasocial relationship . Parasocial relationship is conceptualized as an imaginary, one sided relationship or friendship a television viewers has with a mass c...