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Anna Kendrick positive after nude photo leak

Anna Kendrick is looking at the positives following the recent hacking of her nude photos.

The ‘Pitch Perfect’ star – whose naked pictures were posted online by hackers earlier this year alongside other stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton – is glad the episode encouraged people not to blame those who were victims.

She said: ”I’m happy that it seems like more people are coming around. Because it happened en masse in that way, it forced people to come around and go, ‘Everybody does this and victim-blaming is not helping.’

”Because before that, there was a lot of, ”If you didn’t want naked photos of yourself on the Internet, well, you shouldn’t have taken them.”

The 29-year-old actress has admitted that even her friends had changed their views, after realising how many celebrities had their personal photographs hacked.

She explained to The Daily Beast: ”So, the one and only good thing that came out of it is that it really shifted the conversation.

”Friends of mine that had taken the other attitude were like, ‘People should be able to do whatever they want, and it’s f***ed up that that happened to them.’ That’s the lone positive that came out of that whole thing.”

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Reese Witherspoon hates ‘likeable’ tag

Reese Witherspoon hates being ”likeable”.

The ‘Water For Elephants’ star dislikes when people brand her in that way because it affects which acting roles she is given.

She told the New York Times newspaper: ”I’ve sat through millions of development meetings where people are like: ‘We don’t want Reese to say profanities. We don’t want her to have sex. We don’t want her to take drugs.’

”I didn’t really feel the constraints of it until about three years ago, where I realised, ‘I’m not this.’ I’m a complex person that has so many different aspects in my personality. But somehow, I have this reductive experience where I’m put into this tiny little box.”

When asked what the box would be, she added: ”Likeable. Can we scrub the likeable box?”

Meanwhile, the 38-year-old actress believes that her character in new film ‘Wild’ is the most likeable of all the roles she’s played.

She said: ”To me, likeable is human, and real, and honest. To me, I find the character in ‘Wild’ much more likeable than a lot of characters I’ve played in comedy. She’s telling the truth.”

However, Reese did previously admit that she found her role in the biographical drama particularly demanding.

She recently explained: ”It’s the hardest I’ve ever done for many different reasons. The physicality was really difficult, but after that was the emotional part of it.

”The sex scenes were the hardest thing for me to do. I’ve never had to do anything like that in my entire life. I had to do all the parts of the movie, the parts that made me feel uncomfortable too, because it is about emotional honesty.”

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Reese Witherspoon hates ‘likeable’ tag

Reese Witherspoon hates being ”likeable”.

The ‘Water For Elephants’ star dislikes when people brand her in that way because it affects which acting roles she is given.

She told the New York Times newspaper: ”I’ve sat through millions of development meetings where people are like: ‘We don’t want Reese to say profanities. We don’t want her to have sex. We don’t want her to take drugs.’

”I didn’t really feel the constraints of it until about three years ago, where I realised, ‘I’m not this.’ I’m a complex person that has so many different aspects in my personality. But somehow, I have this reductive experience where I’m put into this tiny little box.”

When asked what the box would be, she added: ”Likeable. Can we scrub the likeable box?”

Meanwhile, the 38-year-old actress believes that her character in new film ‘Wild’ is the most likeable of all the roles she’s played.

She said: ”To me, likeable is human, and real, and honest. To me, I find the character in ‘Wild’ much more likeable than a lot of characters I’ve played in comedy. She’s telling the truth.”

However, Reese did previously admit that she found her role in the biographical drama particularly demanding.

She recently explained: ”It’s the hardest I’ve ever done for many different reasons. The physicality was really difficult, but after that was the emotional part of it.

”The sex scenes were the hardest thing for me to do. I’ve never had to do anything like that in my entire life. I had to do all the parts of the movie, the parts that made me feel uncomfortable too, because it is about emotional honesty.”

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Conflicting views of a child’s behavior helpful to clinician

Clinicians often face the challenge of trying to make sense of conflicting reports from parents, teachers, and children about a child’s behavioral problems.

However, a better understanding of the source and nature of these disagreements may provide important information that could improve treatment and outcomes.

A group of articles in the current issue of Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology explores this challenging clinical dilemma and how clinicians should proceed in the face of these conflicting reports.

Editors note that “disagreement between informants was more the rule than the exception.” They suggest that clinicians view this disagreement as “additional information” rather than a problem and use this information to help determine the credibility of each informant’s report.

“This has implications for treatment engagement, adherence, and ultimately outcomes,” they conclude.

"Clinicians have long known that parents and children have very different perceptions about how a child is behaving or what they are feeling…These studies improve the diagnosis and advance our understanding and treatment of children with psychiatric disorders," said Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz, Editor-in-Chief.

 

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Kids more accepting of peers who try to change undesirable trait

Kansas State University researchers evaluated responses from 137 third- through eighth-grade students to see how they anticipate interacting with peers who have various characteristics seen as undesirable, such as being a poor student or being extremely aggressive.

The kids responded to statements about six hypothetical male peers for the study: each was either a poor student, poor athlete, extremely overweight, extremely aggressive, extremely shy or had symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

In the study, published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Genetic Psychology, researchers found that the more the students attributed fault to a peer for his undesirable characteristic, the more they would tease and make fun of him, and the less they would like to help him if he needed assistance.

Students more often indicated that obese and aggressive peers were at fault for having their undesirable attribute and that they lacked the desire and motivation to change it.

"The more they attribute fault to peers for being a poor student, a poor athlete or whatever, the more they dislike them and the more they anticipate responding to them in a negative manner," said psychology professor Mark Barnett.

However, the team found there was a silver lining for kids who have an undesirable characteristic.

“They really liked kids who are successful in overcoming their problem, but they also really liked kids who tried and put effort into changing,” Barnett said.

 

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Salty smell could replace sodium in food?

Adding artificial scents to food may help trick the body into thinking things taste saltier than they acturally are, thereby helping people cut back on sodium without sacrificing flavor, according to a new study reported by the Telegraph.

Researchers at the University of Burgundy in France were able to convince volunteers that food was saltier if it was associated with a scent like sardines or comté cheese.

"In our study we observed an enhancement of salty taste induced by sardine odor but not with carrot odor," explained study author Dr. Thierry Thomas-Danguin.

Because the scents are artificially produced, they contain no salt, fat, calories or even taste – but the mere aroma is enough to trick the brain into perceiving a saltier flavor.

"We think that odor-induced saltiness enhancement could be used in a very large range of foodstuff," added Thomas-Danguin. "Well-selected odors can compensate up to a 25 percent reduction of salt content. Other sensory dimensions of food, such as the food texture, would also modulate the smell-taste interaction."

Excessive salt consumption is linked to heart disease, high blood pressure and increased risk of stroke, but many prepared meals and fast foods are loaded with sodium to improve flavor.

 

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Effectiveness of painkillers depends on mindset

A fascinating new European study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine examines the role of conscious thought on the perception of pain, reports the Telegraph.

Researchers from three universities in Britain and Germany ran an experiment that showed the powerful role our beliefs play in the management of pain.

They placed a hot device on the skin of 22 volunteers, each with an intravenous line to administer a powerful opiate-based painkiller. Before any painkiller was administered, the volunteers ranked the pain at an average of 66 on a scale of 0 to 100.

When the scientists administered the painkiller without telling the volunteer, the average pain ranking dropped to 55. However, once the volunteer was informed that they had started administering the drug, the average pain ranking dropped even more to 39.

Even though it wasn’t true, the researchers then told the volunteers that they had stopped the pain medication, which resulted in a pain ranking of 64 – even though the drugs were still flowing.

MRI scans monitoring brain activity showed that pain networks were more active when the participant thought they weren’t receiving any painkiller. The opposite proved true when the volunteer believed they were receiving the medication – inhibited activity in the brain’s pain network.

"Doctors shouldn’t underestimate the significant influence that patients’ negative expectations can have on outcome,” said study lead Professor Irene Tracey at Oxford University.

 

"For example, people with chronic pain will often have seen many doctors and tried 16many drugs that haven’t worked for them…Doctors have almost got to work on that first before any drug will have an effect on their pain." 

 

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Why do women feel bigger than they are?

The female brain distorts body image and a majority of women see themselves as two-thirds larger than they actually are.

Researchers at University College London have sought to understand the phenomenon to better explain eating disorders such as anorexia.

In a hall of mirrors, participants were asked to describe their hand they saw in the mirror. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports a majority said their hand was two-thirds larger than it was and one-third shorter than the actual measurement.

This perception of the hand suggests that this also occurs in other parts of the body too. This distortion is much greater among women who are more sensitive to their appearance.

However, body image is often worse if a woman was bigger in the past. The weight loss has not computed in their head, especially if they lost a lot of weight quickly.

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Thoughts Influence Perception

An international study published in Psychological Science concluded that our thinking influences our perception by demonstrating that interpretation of emotion on a face influences our memory of it.

American, New Zealand and French researchers showed their subjects pictures of faces altered by computer to have ambiguous expressions.  They asked them to think of these faces as angry or happy.

The participants were then shown a short film of faces that changed expression, from angry to happy. Then, they were asked to find the photo they had seen first.

The first interpretations influenced their memory, with the faces that were initially interpreted as angry were more angry in their memory than the faces that were originally designated as happy.