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Tag Archives: Estonia
Estonia Considered A Loose Country
Estonia, together with the Ukraine, Hungary and Israel are cultures that may be considered quite loose in terms of socially accepted behaviours and tolerance, shows a study in the Science magazine comparing 33 nations. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Research, Social sciences
Tagged behaviour, cross-cultural psychology, culture, culture studies, Estonia, loose cultures, social psychology, tight cultures
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How The Weather Affects Our Emotions?
Many believe that the sun makes us happy and rain brings sorrow. Doctoral candidate in psychology Liisi Kööts and her supervisors Jüri Allik and Anu Realo compared weather data with individuals’ self-evaluated emotions. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social sciences
Tagged emotions, Estonia, mood, mood and weather, psychology, weather
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How To Fix Our Image of Man?
Common understanding of man and the world needs serious involvement from philosophy. Philosopher Bruno Mölder discusses how philosophy of mind can assist in fixing our world view by combining improved folk psychology and corrected ideas from scientific research. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Humanities, Research
Tagged astrology, esotericism, Estonia, folk psychology, human, man, philosophy, philosophy of mind, the self
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The Baltic States: Moving Together or Apart?
Andres Kasekamp, professor of political science at the University of Tartu published “A History of The Baltic States” with the Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. He presented the book and his views on cooperation of the Baltic states at Vilnius University. A short summary and the video of the presentation are enclosed. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Events, Research, Social sciences
Tagged Baltic region, Baltic states, Baltics, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, political science
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The Rich Tend To Be Less Religious
A recently published study found that 84 percent of people consider religion to be an important part of their daily lives. A strong relationship exists between a country’s socioeconomic status and the religiosity of its residents – the richer the country, the less important religion is to its population. However, there are some exceptions, including Estonia. Continue reading
Estonians Don’t Get Enough Vitamin D
Even at the end of the summer season, one third of Estonians have too little vitamin D in their bodies. According to the doctoral thesis which Mart Kull defended at the University of Tartu’s Faculty of Medicine, this is most severe during the winter, when 73% of the Estonian population has less vitamin D than required and 8% suffers from complete vitamin deficiency. Continue reading