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Research

How Shared Smiles Shape Social Connection: Insights from Research

Recent research has found that simple actions like smiling and copying another person’s facial expressions can play an important role in building trust. The study shows that smiling is not only an expression of happiness but also a powerful social signal. When individuals smile at each other or unconsciously mirror each other’s facial expressions, it […]

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Education Technology

Emotional Wellbeing in Blended Education: A Psychological Perspective

“Blended learning has the potential to transform education by personalising learning experiences and leveraging the power of technology.” – Arne Duncan  Education plays a vital role in the life of every individual on this planet. Education has gone through different phases over a period. It all started from the Gurukul mode of education. Later education […]

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Parenting Relationship

The Psychological Blueprint of Love: How Home Environment Shapes Emotional Development

From Mirza ghalibs poetry to Bollywood songs and inside the pages of literature, love finds a place everywhere. Whether it’s Shakespeare’s ‘’Love all, but trust a  few’’ or by Neruda’s ‘’I love you without knowing how to’ ’and Jane Austen’s ‘’ you have bewitched me, body and soul and I love, I love, I love you’’. This […]

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Research

How Memory Can Be Rewritten: Episodic and Semantic Memory Retrieval

This research explores how human memory is not fixed the moment it is formed, but can be rewritten or modified when recalled. Instead of treating memories as unchangeable recordings, the study shows that when a person retrieves a memory, whether a personal event (episodic memory) or general knowledge (semantic memory), the process of bringing it […]

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advertorial

The Simple Question a Good Massage Asks

Where do you feel it right now? That vague tightness. It might be a low ache across your shoulders, a stiff feeling in your neck when you turn your head, or just a general sense of carrying a weight you cannot put down. We accept this as normal. We stretch at our desks, take a […]

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Event

1st Annual Conference on Advancing Mental Health through Contemporary Psychological Approaches

Association for Psychological Sciences and Practice (APSP), India, has announced its first annual conference on the theme “Advancing Mental Health through Contemporary Psychological Approaches” being held on 13th & 14th March 2026. The venue of the conference is offline at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Department of Psychology.  The conference aims to bring together students, professionals, scholars, and […]

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Research

Neural Differences Between Guilt and Shame: How These Emotions Shape Behaviour

Guilt and shame are powerful emotions that influence how people think, feel and behave in social situations. Although these emotions are often used interchangeably,  they are not the same. Both can arise when a person believes they have done something wrong, but they differ in what triggers them and how they shape their behaviour. This […]

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Industrial

Is There Space for Humanistic Practices in Performance-Driven Workplaces?

Most of the employees struggle to satisfy the performance expectations of their bosses while keeping their self-respect intact. Work life has an influence on a person’s personal life, and most of the times employees work hard and keep their well-being secondary and work at a primary priority, a pattern widely discussed in occupational psychology research (American  Psychological […]

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Social

Why Limited-Time Offers and “Extra ₹50 Off” Feel Impossible to Resist

There’s no doubt we’ve all been there, when you’re quietly scrolling through your phone, minding your own business, and then suddenly a bright notification pops up: “Hurry up! Extra 50% off— Today Only!” Even if you don’t need anything, something weird happens within us. We feel a small tingle of urgency in our head, a […]

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Awareness Social

The Psychology of the Barnum Effect: Why We Believe Generic Descriptions

“You appear to be calm but experience inner tension and worry.” Does this seem to be true for you? Statements like these are a determinant of personality. Have you ever taken a personality test and felt that the results were too accurate? The test feels as if it understood you completely.  But have you thought […]

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