Psychology

The intense consultations between European Union member-states on the bloc's response to Turkish aggression in recent months are expected to continue until the 11th hour before the start of Thursday's crucial leaders summit. 

Parents always earnestly try to warn their children against bad habits. There's hardly a kid who from the earliest age was not told about all those nasty microbes living under our nails and how bad for us nail biting is.  

However, Canadian scientists have debunked this myth recently and say that actually this habit is healthy, Med Heal portal reports.

The researchers are trying to pin the blame outside their borders

The barrage of information regarding the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, when and how the lockdown might be gradually lifted, and government assistance to businesses and individuals affected by the crisis appears to have overshadowed the tragic reality that over 1,000 lives have been lost.

The coronavirus threat entered our lives quite abruptly, turning our world inside out. Treading this new, unfamiliar, and unchartered territory causes great stress, since we are called upon, practically overnight, to alter our habits and behavior, while feeling vulnerable and unprepared. 

People in the EU aged 18-34 report being more likely to feel depressed, lonely, and anxious than those aged 35 and over. They also indicate lower levels of resilience in dealing with problems in life, and a significant decrease in life satisfaction compared to before the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

A university in Istanbul has fired one of its staff after his televised comments about teenage girls' potential for fertility caused public outrage.

During a TV show, Professor Muttalip Kutluk Özgüven, from the computer engineering department at Aydın University, claimed that the age range between 12 to 17 is an ideal period for girls to give birth to their first child.

Anxiety over the coronavirus pandemic is growing rapidly among Turkish society, a study carried out by the private Istanbul's Üsküdar University has shown.
The university conducted a research on the pandemic through online questionnaires in 81 provinces, with a total of 6,318 people having participated in the research.

"Happy Easter! Today we are all called to overcome the ordeal of 2020, to seek the truest path and unity in order to cope with the long-term effects of the current crisis.

Turkey has formed a second science board to tackle the social impacts of the measures taken in the fight against the coronavirus, the health minister has announced, informing that the new board will include experts in the field of psychology of religion, sociology of religion, statistics, sociology and psychology.