I happened to log in to one of my psychology essays website and found some comments.
Nikki writes:
Subject: Entertainment
It would be interesting to see a broader approach to entertainment. For example something that pertains to live entertainment (such as circus, dance, religious rites, live music). The obsession everyone has with dissecting video game and movie/celebrity addictions has started to tire me out. It would be great to see this subject put it's attention on more positive side of entertainment, and maybe that way more positive things will come out of it. For example, I'm very curious as to whether story telling, while entertaining, also serves to create and stimulate new ideas in the listener, giving them better tactics to deal with life and help create new, previously unknown emotions in the listener. Or can watching an amazing dancer inspire one to exercise and dance themselves, creating better body awareness and better overall health. Is being transported to a different reality really mindless, or does it provide one with tools of creativity that will help them be more flexible and more innovative. Of course, the mindless entertainment of video games and Hollywood aren't providing this, but if we start to emphasize and improve the entertainment that does, wouldn't that bring us farther?
Comment provided April 03, 2011 at 18:04 pm
Reply - SR
Nikki - I am very pleased that you thought along these lines. Of course, that is what I have tried to emphasize and focused on the personal forms of entertainment as in story telling, playing with a child, listening to music for instance, these are very personal. In fact the personal forms of entertainment are more important to us than the more public forms of entertainment like movies. I wouldn't call Hollywood entertainment mindless, but that is only one type of entertainment which may not have the same impact as the more personal types of entertainment. So of course we need to broaden our horizons when we do our research on entertainment and create a comprehensive psychology of entertainment. This is a more developing field as you see.
Aishwarya writes:
Subject: article
it is a fantastic article on advertisement in psychological aspect and it covers up all the information about advertisement in psychological aspect.
Comment provided April 09, 2011 at 06:45 am
Reply - SR
Aishwarya - Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you found the article helpful. This is one of my most popular articles.
Thanks a lot for yoru comments - SR