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Life Style Positive

Living Alone in India: Freedom, Loneliness, and the Search for Balance

Think of moving to a new city with just two suitcases and without any face known to you greeting you at the end of the day. This is becoming a rather common experience for young people living in cities in

Research

New Study Identifies Genetic Defect Behind Primary Hyperhidrosis

Primary hyperhidrosis, a disorder in which people sweat significantly more than necessary for body cooling, “soaking clothing to dripping from hands,” such as the case for the study subject, can interfere profoundly with day-to-day life and lead to significant anxiety

Awareness Technology

The Psychology of “Everything Is a Subscription”: Why We Feel Overwhelmed by Monthly Commitments

The way consumers pay for goods and services has changed significantly during the last ten years. Meal kits, software, exercise programs, streaming services, and even razors are being delivered via recurring billing instead of one-time purchases. This change, which is

Awareness

Busy but Not at Peace: The Psychology of Escaping Worry

Have you always felt a dependable type of fatigue that results from having a packed agenda instead of a blank one? A perplexed merry-go-round where meetings turn into errands, errands turn into notifications, and by the end of the day,

Awareness Social

Dopamine Sites in South Korea: Why Gen Z Is Choosing Fake Shopping for Real Comfort

Kim is a 25-year-old working in an office in Seoul. She launches what appears to be a food delivery application. She browses, selects a dish, puts it in her basket and monitors a delivery boy walking his way to her apartment. Nothing

Positive

The Psychology of Hope: Can Belief and Miracles Improve Well-Being?

A group of researchers studying cancer patients had a remarkable finding- not only did the patients with higher levels of hope cope better emotionally, but they also said that they had less pain and enjoyed a better quality of life

Self Help

Why “Others Have It Worse” Is One of the Most Harmful Mental Health Myths

“Wars are going on and people dying- one shouldn’t feel that way.” “Others have it so much worse than we do.” They are said more often than people realise, by other people or by the afflicted person, and they are

Industrial

Why Night Owls Don’t Respond to Antidepressants: The Social Jetlag–Brain Connection

It’s now six thirty in the morning on a Tuesday when the alarm rings loud and clear. The woman who is about to wake up is Maria, an accountant aged thirty-four. She has slept for six hours, but her body

Research Technology

The Dopaminergic Loop of Predictive AI Feeds: How Algorithms Hijack the Brain’s Reward System

How Logic Algorithms Hijack the Brain’s Reward Structure, and Why Isolation Makes It Worse. Just about every user of TikTok and Instagram Videos, or YouTube Shorts, can probably relate to a certain story. At some point in the evening, a

Education

Freud vs. MRI: Which Psychoanalytic Theories Still Hold Up Today?

Sigmund Freud never had any exposure to MRI scanners. Relying solely on his clinical couch, notepad, and decades of clinical observations accumulated from listening to his patients’  dreams, fears, and forgotten memories, he constructed a complete theory of the human mind. In