SEAS Issue 5 #psychology

MATTIA CASTIELLO ISSUE 5

SEAS APRIL 9

PEOPLE, LIFE, FASHION, MUSIC

#5 psychology

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INSIDE THE ISSUE

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This weeks stories.... #Psychology

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Feature Story: Mattia Castiello

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Emoj-IE

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Feature Story: Estefania Peromingo

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Music- In conversation...

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This weeks stories...

Mattia Castiello Age 21 Psychology Student 2nd year IE University Psychology

SEAS MAGAZINE SHANNON SCHﾃ傍TLE AGE 19 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & MAGAZINE DESIGN

ALESSANDRO FABBRINI AGE 19 HEAD OF PHOTOGRAPHY & INSTAGRAM

ANGEL METODIEV AGE 20 MULTIMEDIA EDITOR & EDITOR OF VIDEO MONTAGE

Emoji-IE

EDGARDO SCHIENA AGE 21 HEAD OF COMMUNICATION FACEBOOK TWITTER

Estefania Peromingo Age 19 Psychology Student 2nd year IE University Psychology

Anna Raluka Age 21 Exchange IE University Music

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WHAT IS SEAS MAGAZINE ALL ABOUT? If you want to find out about the other side of students at IE University,and are interested in fashion, food and lifestyle then you are at the right place.

SEAS Magazine allows you to look through the eyes of other students at their experiences, passions and studies.

Giving you a broader image of the personalities wondering around campus.

We are a team of second year communication students creating a magazine about IE University students for IE University students.

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Emojis. What’s the big deal?

For this issue, SEAS looked into psychology. And what better than emojis can explain complicated feelings and states of mind to others? No more ambiguous messages, no more unnecessary words. We live in the emoji era.

Today It’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t remotely know what emojis are. Even before them, there’s been a vast legacy of emoticons and smiley faces that all originated from a simple colon and a braket.

For most 90’s kids, MSN was an addiction. Mesmerized by the sheer amount of stupid faces, glowing letters and sparkling signs, we’d spend hours “pimping” our fonts and smirking with pride when surprising our friends with a new, awesome emoticon that they’ve never seen before. And we felt so damn cool about it.

Nowadays it’s all about emojis. Even though the colorful library is more targetted towards an asian/ Japanese audience (that’s where they actually come from), westerners don’t let that affect them and give new meanings to each and every sign.

The truth is, most of us are addidted to emojis. What would the world be like without them? It gives me shivers just to think about it.

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MATTIA CAST ‘People are much more than what they seem to be and what meets the eye.’

Age 21 2nd year Psychology 10

TIELLO

PHOTOGRAPHY: ANGEL METODIEV

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PHOTOGRAPHY: ANGEL METODIEV

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Tell us about yourself.

My parents are originally Italian, but I have lived my whole life in Kenya in Africa.

What has psychology taught you?

What has psychology taught me... It has taught me a lot of things, but the main thing that it has is that if you tell people that you are a psychology student, they will assume that you will psychoanalyze them. In that respect its taught me, don’t psychoanalyze people unless you really have to, because then it just complicates things when you are out around people.

But its mainly taught me that people are much more than what they seem to be and what meets the eye What is your favorite thing about psychology?

My favorite thing about psychology is that its everything, everything we do is psychology, being in the sun is psychology, every little aspect of life that we take in has something minimal to do with psychology. Anything!

Do you feel like a scientist?

Yes, I do feel like a scientist. Mainly because I am obviously always doing psychology attributions in my head to people, I mean people will obviously not agree that I am a scientist, because people are just people and they talk, but yes I do see myself as a scientist.

Why? Because you know... I am hella smart, so that helps mainly, but also with psychology I have to do certain things that require me to carry out scientific resources that I have in my head.

For example, if I am in an interview with someone and I am trying to understand them, I am automatically keen to apply scientific aspects to them, were not necessarily in a lab mixing chemicals its not that kind of thing it’s a different aspect of science.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: ANGEL METODIEV

Your ideal job would be.....

My ideal job, I would say, would be helping people who don’t necessarily have the wide range of things that can help them, for example in countries such as Kenya, they don’t have the resources to help them with psychological issues, due to culture and this, I would like to change.

For me that would be my ideal job, to change the ways they view the psychology world in countries that aren’t necessarily western.

Advice for first years?

Never try and psychoanalyze people ever!!! EVER!! They will think you are weird and you’ll just attribute to the stereotype that has been set. Another piece of advice is to be ready to expand your mind, as much as possible, in any aspect.

Can you read my mind?

Can I read your mind? Well that is something you’ll have to find out for yourself.

I can’t necessarily answer that with a yes or no. But if I can read your mind I would say, I would definitely not tell you, I would keep it for myself and act according to what I have read, so its up to you.

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EMOJ-IE

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PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNON SCHﾃ傍TLE

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PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNON SCHﾃ傍TLE

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Good to know: As of March 2015, Snapchat has implemented a new way to know a little more about your besties, or bfs, (the people you snapchat with the most).

It gets more interesting: emojis are the key. In fact, now every time you send emojis to your bffs, you’ll notice an emoji next to their names. Here’s how to figure out what they mean:

you’re each other’s # 1 best friend one of your best friends is their best friend your #1 best friend is their #1 best friend you’re their best friend, but they’re not yours

PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNON SCHÖTTLE

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NEW EMOJI

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PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNON SCHÖTTLE

Estefania Peromingo Age 19

‘If chemistry is necessary to understand the world, psychology is basic to understand others and ourselves.’

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PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNON SHANNON SCHﾃ傍TLE SCHﾃ傍TLE

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PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNON SHANNON SCHﾃ傍TLE SCHﾃ傍TLE

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PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNON SCHĂ–TTLE Describe yourself in 3 words.

This one is really difficult to answer but it is one of the first questions they make you do when you start studying psychology. So, I would describe myself as a hard-working person, optimistic and perseverant.

Why psychology?

I was really curious about the world of psychology, to understand why some people behave different than others, and like many I want to try and help people to solve their problems. I remember one time my chemistry teacher asked me why I chose to study psychology and I answered that if chemistry is necessary to understand the world, psychology is basic to understand others and ourselves. We have interpersonal relations all day everyday in all places at all time, so it is really useful knowledge.

What are your future aspirations?

I would like to have a job that challeng es me at the same time as it makes fulfills me, since without motivation you never do a good job. Also, it would be interesting to find a job, which allows me to travel a lot and to discover as well as understand different cultures.

Who is your favorite psychologist and why?

It is very difficult to choose just one psychologist since there are very different fields in psychology. One of the most interesting psychologists for me is Martin Selligman, a specialist on positive psychology. He has written a lot of interesting books about how to use and find our strengths and this philosophy is really useful in everyday life, but also is applicable to business.

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What is the most successful experiment you did?

I am in second year, so I haven’t done as much experiments as I would like, but one of the most interesting experiments I have done so far was with kids. The objective was to study the development of abstract thinking and it was fun, because things that are obvious for us (as for example the number of the coins in a line is the same even when they are further from each other) for children it seems to be completely different (they think that because the coins lie further apart there will be more of them), listening to their arguments of why there are more was quite entertaining.

In what would you like to specialize yourself in?

Right know I would like to do something related with human resources, leadership and the motivation of employees, but as I have said before, If I don’t feel that the job will satisfy me, I would probably change to something

PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNON SCHﾃ傍TLE

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Anna Raluka Age 21 Describe yourself in 5 adjectives I believe that I am artistic, optimistic, super clumsy, a child inside, and funny.

You’re a musician. What instruments do you play?

I play the piano and I’ve been playing it for 8 years in a music school in Romania. And I recently started playing the ukulele too.

When did your passion for music start? Was it imposed by your parents?

My mom told me when I was little that I had very sensitive ears and that my ears would hurt every time there were loud noises. She took me to music school but I was very shy, so we found a private teacher and I started playing the piano with him. Also, I was in a choir and I did a lot of records with them, and I used to compose stuff when i was little too.

You compose too? How old were you when you started composing?

I think 11 or 12. I recorded on cassettes (chuckles). I know it’s embarrassing, but that what I had at the time.

Was it your parents who pushed you into music?

Yes. But then I started liking it myself and having my own taste for it. Now, I’m addicted to music. Everywhere I go I need to play with someone or have an instrument.

How does music make you feel? Why do you feel this drive to play everywhere you go?

At first it was a way of relaxing myself but at the same time now it’s a great way to express my feelings. It’s about introspection, me exploring my identity.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: ALESSANDRO FABBRINI

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What is my favorite style when it comes to composing? How would you identify your music?

People have told me that most of my music sounds like Joe Hisaishi’s (Japanese composer for Miyazaki movies such as Spirited Away). I grew up with his cartoons but I mainly like each and every kind of music. I wish I could explore more jazz, even though it’s pretty hard. of course I love classical music; it’s the basics, but i don’t think there’s a style when it comes to making your own music. It’s just me and my emotions and how I put them into notes on a sheet of paper.

There isn’t a day that passes in which I don’t listen to music. I wake up, sleep and walk on music. I just have to. One year, I didn’t play any instrument at all and it was awful. My parents always tried to make me write stories for school but writing isn’t the same; it’s not as easy as going to the piano and ‘puke out your emotions’.

I think I’m scared of making a career out of music because if I had to make music on a deadline it would ruin everything. It would be so stressful and nothing good would come out of it. You can’t predict your own inspiration, you can’t force it.

What are the projects you’re working on right now?

Well, I’ve been hired as the composer of a new short movie sponsored by IE University, called Quicksilver. I’m basically in charge of making the soundtrack with Alessandro Fabbrini, Alex Barbier and Angel Metodiev.

It’s a very interesting story, and our music will add a very dramatic touch to it (laughs). But it’s a lot of fun because I’ve never done a soundtrack before and I can finally use the songs that I’ve made so far. It’s cool to see how the songs and the people’s personalities complete each other.

What are your future plans? Planning on pursuing a career in music?

Music is my passion and for a very long time I was wondering if I should pursue something artistic. Parents tell you it’s not a good future and you’re not going to make money if you’re not talented, but honestly that’s all I want do; it makes me happy. I’m a psychology student, so I’m trying to find a balance between a ‘money’ career and at the same time pursue my real passion. I want to be involved in this environment and make music with people that share my same passion.

Being on exchange has been very good to me because I met so many talented people and they made me realize even more that music is what I want to do.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: ALESSANDRO FABBRINI

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Do you think it’s hard to live off of music nowadays?

Yes, it’s so hard. No matter how much talent you have, it’s not about having an amazing voice, but it’s about having a story behind your music.

Connecting with other people’s emotions is key. Most of today’s singers don’t even create the songs or the lyrics themselves; others do songs for them.

It’s very limiting. I don’t want be just a voice, I want to do my own stuff from top to bottom. But at the same time it’s difficult to start from the bottom without any financial help, and that’s the only problem really.

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