WHAT IS STORY




Children's stories are a human heritage shared by all the people of the earth, and children always follow these stories with great interest, whether present in the traditional way, which is tradition or of evolution. According to other methods. Time, and whether it's through reading or painting stories or through television, and finally computers.


Many sciences have dealt with the various implications of such stories, whether psychological, social, or educational, inculcating human values in children's hearts, strengthening their perceptions, developing their imagination and It was natural to seek the attention of psychologists for this human tendency to imitate children by developing advanced models, as research is ongoing. The latest study, published in mid-June this year in the journal Psychological Science, discusses the effects of positive moral stories on children.


The study showed that upholding values such as honesty and truthfulness in a particular story is more effective than showing bad examples or in which the hero can achieve victories through lying, deceit, or other negative values. Dr. Kang Lee, head of the research team from the University of Toronto, Canada, pointed out that parents should not rely entirely on the issue that only moral stories will improve children's behavior, but rather they should follow that behavior and find out if these stories have achieved the desired effect or not.


The researchers included 268 children aged three and seven who were selected from different locations across Canada (Canada is considered an immigration country, with many cultures and ethnicities). The first experiment was based on the speculation of what a particular game was, and he instructed the children to sit in a certain position, with a table on their backs, and the experimental researcher sitting on the other side of the table. A game in which the children did not even see it, and recognizing the sound of the game by pressing this button gives a specific sound that is the game (for example, if the game is in the form of a cat) cat Sounds like a meow, etc. The child had to move around and recognize the game without just seeing it through the voice.



One of the researchers left the room for a minute and pretended that she was going to choose one of the books and left the room in front of her empty without the observers, and the child left the table. But did not order to peek at the game. So that the sound that is made is not recognized directly without hearing it. Of course, for most children, leaving the room without curiosity to learn the game represented a great temptation that was difficult for them to resist, and there was a hidden camera in the room that the researcher left after Supervised the child's operation.


Stories of honesty and integrity



* When the researcher returned to the room, he read two kinds of stories, first focusing on the negative aspects of dishonesty, dishonesty, and the harm caused by lying, for example (the story of the baby wolf Lied about the appearance of) in the village just to make fun of, and when the wolf literally appeared, no one believed him because he was used to lying)


And other types of stories focused on the benefits of honesty rather than the flaws of lies, for example when it represented a fictional story about the childhood of George Washington (former US President). But this story is based on mythical events in addition to historical facts. The focus was on the value of honesty and how his father rewarded him when he mentioned it. The fact is that instead of punishing the cherry tree for not lying, he uprooted it, and instead of mentioning honesty, how the path to success in his life was the flaws of dishonesty. To complete the experiment, the researcher turned the conclusion into a more negative form, which overstated the details of the dishonesty defects.


Then the researcher asked the child whether or not one of them had peeked at the game on the table and asked him to mention the truth and not lying, and she mentioned that the child should not lie like that bad example in the story (the story of the child and the wolf)


Contrary to the researcher's expectation, well-known and well-known stories that show the negatives of dishonesty and honesty were of no use in urging children to virtue and encouraging them to tell truthfulness, unlike children who heard stories that show the advantages of honesty and honesty who responded three times more than their other peers who heard the stories. The negatives stand out, to say the truth and admit that they peeked out while the researcher was out of the room


The interesting thing is that when the researcher changed the ending to take the negative form, the children were not keen on stating the truth about peeping, which means that they were not affected by the story. The team is currently working on finding out if these stories can lead to positive behavior in a future life or not.



A man was very annoyed together with his wife and wanted to divorce her in any case. sooner or later he saw his wife climbing the steps. He addressed his wife and said: Listen! If you go up, you may get a divorce. If you go down, you'll get a divorce. the girl checked out her husband, paused for an instant, thought for a flash, then her husband found.


That she jumped from the stairs and the water turned on her husband's longings. He said to his wife, "My parents sacrificed on you!" So what a great jurist.