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The Psychology of Cynicism: Why Some People Expect the Worst in Others

Imagine a woman, Elena, who is going to a wedding. The groom makes a tearful, heartfelt speech about devotion and sacrifice, which brings the room to silence. Elena, however, leans over to her partner and whispers, “He’s just exaggerating because he’s

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Limerence: Understanding Intense One-Sided Attachment in Today’s Relationships

Frequently, our feelings fail to demonstrate themselves honestly. For example, limerence is one of those times. This word can sometimes have some difficulty in defining it. Limerence can exist in phrases like “I think I am in love” or “It’s complicated”. It

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Therapy Trailblazers: Women Who Transformed Modern Mental Health Care

For centuries, the history of psychology was always told a story held in the closet as a gallery of “Great Men”, a lineage which stretches from Sigmund Freud’s Victorian couches to B.F. Skinner’s modern behavioural cages. But this story is not

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John B. Watson’s Personal Scandal and the Fall of Behaviourism’s Public Image

Psychology encountered many challenges throughout the 20th century as it was trying to become accepted as a scientific discipline, and one of those challenges was that of John B. Watson, who had great confidence as a psychologist and wanted to

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Emotional Dysregulation as a Core Mechanism in Personality Disorders

We often confess to reacting in an overwhelmed way, shouting in anger, uncontrollable crying and impulsive behaviours. This affects our daily routine, work, relationships, and mental health. Emotions are a way of expressing our feelings strongly and help us to

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The Neuroscience Behind Doomscrolling: Why Can’t We Stop Scrolling? 

Imagine lying in bed after a long day, intending to relax, phone in hand, scrolling through headlines about disasters, climate change, conflicts and thus the process becomes endless. One story leads to another, and surprisingly, hours have passed. The brain won’t

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Denial or Defense? The Psychology Behind Why People Justify Addiction

The question of why people keep using drugs even though they know it may be harmful. For instance, someone may promise to quit after a negative experience, but then again find themselves returning to the same behaviour. Substance use is

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Masturbation as Stress Relief: Coping Mechanism or Emotional Escape?

Masturbation is a topic that is increasingly given a biopsychosocial perspective in the contemporary landscape of mental health. Although traditionally it belongs to the world of biology or personal pleasure, its use as a means of psychology is important. Self-stimulation,

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The Psychology Behind Attachment: Why It’s Survival, Not a Choice

Attachment is something that has been wired within us before we even learn language, before we even have any personal preferences, before we even have the proper sense of who we are. And when we understand this, it can change

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Pigeons Defy the Law of Effect: New Research on Adaptive and Unpredictable Behavior

A team of researchers from the University of Iowa conducted an experiment to test the working of the Law of Effect. Any normal living being is very likely to stick towards a particular action that leads them towards a reward,