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"But there is a very pernicious and difficult, darker side to it on so many levels - especially with kids looking at such a ridiculously idealised world and imagining that's how life should be."

The study also revealed that 40 percent of parents said idealised images of parenthood were making new parents anxious.

In a study, experiment participants who had been trained on statistically idealised data vastly improved their ability to predict the outcome of a baseball game.

Tamara Ansons, assistant professor at Warwick Business School, said: "To successfully use idealised images in marketing communications, they should be presented subtly.

To this day its shimmering glass torso shrouding a structural skeleton has provided the Spreedreieck with an idealised identity.

Gradually, we get glimpses of the truth behind the idealised family picture.

We owe much of this image of a rural idyll to the Victorian and Edwardian painters who gave us this idealised view of country life.

These men have a completely idealised view of their father and the paternal function," she said.