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Awareness Social

Psychology Behind Uncertainty: Why the Unknown Triggers Anxiety

Uncertainty is woven into everyday life, often in quiet and familiar ways. It appears when a student refreshes an exam portal repeatedly while waiting for results, when a working professional checks emails anxiously after hearing rumours of layoffs, or when someone rereads a short text message, trying to guess what it really means. These moments […]

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Awareness Parenting Social

How Age Shapes a Child’s Understanding of Death and Grief

All of us have seen the deaths of our dear ones at some point in our lives (American  Psychological Association, 2020). Some might have seen their family members dying, some may have seen their close friends, and others may have seen people not very close to them, yet the death of someone makes all of us gloomy […]

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Awareness Education Health

Role of Serotonin in the Human Mind

Like every process in this world has a particular mechanism according to which it functions, the human body also functions according to specific mechanisms and processes. Like every chemical in the human body plays a vital role in the same way, serotonin is a chemical released by the human brain (Harvard Health Publishing, 2022). Sometimes people feel […]

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Awareness Industrial

POSH Training in Corporates: Bridging the Gap Between Awareness and Workplace Respect

The sexual harassment issue in the workplace remains one that is there despite the heightened awareness, legal provisions, and official directives in the corporate setting. This adherence to it doesn’t fit the widely held definition of respectful behaviour as being a direct result of common sense. In case proper behaviour actually is an intuitive one, […]

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Awareness Technology

The Google Effect: How Instant Access to Information Is Reshaping Human Memory

Years ago, information and knowledge were only available through books and teachers. Gaining knowledge or learning a new skill requires time, patience and effort. Libraries were a major source of information. But modern society has transformed learning. Books are scanned for online uploading, newspapers provide online subscriptions, and radio podcasts are available on all platforms. Information […]

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Pets Social

Paws with a Purpose: Service Dogs for Disabled People

“28-year-old Aanya wakes up every morning not to an alarm clock, but to a gentle nudge from her Labrador retriever, ‘Tara’. 5 years ago, when Aanya was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she sometimes struggles with balance, fatigue and overwhelming anxiety. Before Tara came into her life, simple tasks like getting out of bed or walking to […]

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Social

Festive Filters: A Psychological Study of Religious Celebrations in Plural Societies

Religious festivals are among the most emotionally powerful events in human social life. Across cultures and belief systems, people gather to light lamps, fast, feast, pray, sing, decorate spaces and remember sacred stories. While these acts are often framed as expressions of faith, psychology shows that festivals serve a deeper function: they organise emotion, strengthen relationships […]

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Motivation

The Gendered Psyche of Power: Why Oppression of Women  Strengthens Extremist Rule

Before an extremist regime rewrites laws, it rewrites women. The first cracks in freedom often appear in dress codes, curfews, marriages and classrooms, small shifts that signal a larger project of control. Throughout history and in today’s conflicts, the subjugation of women has been the opening move in establishing fear, discipline, and absolute power. When […]

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Life Style

Why Festivals Feel Different When You’re Away From Home

Do you remember how you celebrated Diwali in childhood – when morning begin with smell of delicious food and sweets, with your father running around for bringing garlands, flowers and diyas for decoration, your mother busy cleaning and cooking, and you were busy thinking about new clothes, you couldn’t wait to burst crackers with you […]

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Awareness Therapy

Somatic Experiencing and Body-Based Trauma Therapy for Survivors of Known-Perpetrator Abuse

Trauma from a known perpetrator, intimate partner, family member, or trusted guardian, predominantly interpersonal emotional injuries upon survivors that extend beyond memory and cognition and result in post-traumatic stress disorder, physical dysregulation, chronic anxiety, intimacy and trust complications. Talking works, but trauma exists as much in the body as in the mind. Therefore, the next best […]

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