Psychologist Philip Zimbardo : ‘Boys risk becoming addicted to porn, video games and Ritalin’ | Life and style

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    Psychologist Philip Zimbardo : ‘Boys risk becoming addicted to porn, video games and Ritalin’
    http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/09/philip-zimbardo-boys-are-a-mess

    Absent fathers and feminised schools are driving boys into a disconnected online world of porn and video games, argues the academic

    avec des affirmations gratuites comme :

    Zimbardo, professor emeritus at Stanford University, replies that everybody needs a mother and father because they give different kinds of love. “Mothers give love unconditionally – because you came out of her body, a mother loves you. You bring home your report card and it’s all Cs? Mom will say, ‘It’s OK. Momma loves you anyway. Try harder.’

    “Fathers give love provisionally. If you want your allowance, if you don’t want me to turn off your computer, then you’ve got to perform. That’s always been the deal with fathers and sons – you don’t get a pass just because you exist, just because you got my name on your birth certificate. You’re going to do it because you want your father to love you and admire you. That central source of extrinsic motivation is gone now for almost one out of every two kids.”