Journal & Research Centre

Featured research papers by experts & collaborating researchers

1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
2. PSYCHOLOGY & WELLNESS

Does Meditation Affects Decision Making?

Over the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in the use of meditation to improve cognitive performance, emotional balance, and well-being. As a consequence, research into the psychological effects and neural mechanisms of meditation has been accumulating. Whether and how meditation affects decision making is not yet clear. Here, we review evidence […]

1. CULTURE
2. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
3. TECHNOLOGY

Life After Esports?

Esports has experienced unprecedented growth recently and with it, the proposition for aspiring gamers to pursue a professional esport career has become increasingly attractive. “Esports” are video-games played competitively (and often professionally) through the means of cyberspace (Campbell et al., 2018) and are an important fixture in the overall gaming industry, which is estimated to […]

1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
2. TECHNOLOGY

Blockchain Technology And Waste Management

The global waste and resource crises necessitate and give great impetus for better and more sustainable management of waste. Increasingly, resource and waste streams that once were sent to landfill or incinerated are now reused, recycled, or recovered. Yet, while many laws and policies have been adopted for this very purpose, a number of recurrent […]

1. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
2. EDITOR'S PICK
3. JOURNAL & RESEARCH

Lessons From The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis

   In the mid-summer of 1997, much of East Asia was gripped by the Asian financial crisis. The crisis began in Thailand due to the mounting pressures of its exchange rate in the last quarter of 1996. The These mounting pressures arose from the increase of the already high current account deficits that engulfed the country at the […]

1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
2. PHILOSOPHY
3. PSYCHOLOGY & WELLNESS
4. SOCIOLOGY

Why Meaning Of Life Matters For Society

Meaning in life reflects the feeling that one’s existence has significance, purpose, and coherence (see Heintzelman and King, 2014). A growing body of research identifies meaning in life as a fundamental human need that strongly influences both psychological and physical well-being (see Vail and Routledge, 2020). Individuals who perceive their lives as full of meaning live longer, […]

1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
2. PHILOSOPHY
3. PSYCHOLOGY & WELLNESS

Who Am I? What Is The Self?

Who am I? What is the self and where does it come from? This may be one of the oldest problems in philosophy. Beyond traditional philosophy, only very recently approaches from neuroscience (in particular imaging studies) have tried to address these questions, too. So what are neural substrates of our self? An increasing body of […]

1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
2. SOCIOLOGY

Covid 19 Management Strategies & Outcomes: East Asia & Western World

In December 2019, a new strain of Coronavirus, later identified as SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) or COVID-19, began to surface in Wuhan, China. By February 2020, COVID-19 had become a pandemic which required emergency measures across the globe. However, regions in East Asia and Europe adopted different pandemic strategies which led to […]

1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
2. SOCIOLOGY

Covid: The Gulf Between The Rich And Poor

Inequality between the rich and poor worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic and poverty increased, for the first time in decades. In part two of our series on how the virus has changed the world, we look at the ways the pandemic has pushed back efforts to create more equitable societies. Inequalities exposed © UNICEF/NahomTesfaye / Street […]

1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
2. SOCIOLOGY

Understanding Otakus & Sex Robots

Social robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in everyday life and sex robots are a sub-category of especially high public interest and controversy. Starting from the concept of the otaku, a term from Japanese youth culture that describes secluded persons with a high affinity for fictional manga characters, we examine individual differences behind sex robot appeal (anime […]

1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH

Loneliness In The Era Of COVID 19

COVID-19 is proving to be a particularly cruel disease not just because of its pathophysiology but also due to its potentially devastating consequences for engendering loneliness. From the outset of the pandemic, we have learned of countless individuals having to die alone or loved ones not being able to grieve by providing burial services (Miller, […]

1. CULTURE
2. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
3. PSYCHOLOGY & WELLNESS

Sad Music Makes Us Happy?

In general, sad music is thought to cause us to experience sadness, which is considered an unpleasant emotion. As a result, the question arises as to why we listen to sad music if it evokes sadness. One possible answer to this question is that we may actually feel positive emotions when we listen to sad […]

1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
2. PSYCHOLOGY & WELLNESS

Does Money Really Make You Happy?

It’s a cliché that “you can’t buy happiness”, but at the same time, financial security is among most people’s top career priorities. Moreover, when people are asked what would most improve the quality of their lives, the most common answer is more money. What’s going on here? Who is right? A lot of the research on […]