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Health

Conduct Disorder: Signs and Diagnosis

Children and teenagers with conduct disorder (CD) suffer from a mental health illness marked by a persistent pattern of aggressive behaviours and acts that are detrimental to other people’s well-being. Rules and social conventions are also frequently broken by kids

Education

Exploring Id, Ego, and Superego in Personality

What makes us all unique? Our traits, behaviours, and preferences intertwine and delve into our complex nature of us, as humans. Most of us say ‘She is a good doctor’ or ‘I like someone’, what do we see or understand?

Awareness

Behavioural Disorders in Children

Children are often naughty and do things that their parents ask them not to. This is their way of exploring their environment. Sometimes they are moody, and other times they might throw tantrums to get what they want. In such

Education

Psychology Behind Relationships

Imagine a world where you don’t have your kith, kin, friends, colleagues and every other person that you count on! A life without these relationships would lack support, connections, shared experiences and so much more, making you feel empty and

Awareness

Bullying and violence in schools

On 21st November 2023, a 16-year-old queer make-up artist Pranshu died by suicide as a result of overwhelming cyberbullying due to their gender identity. Cyberbullying is a type of a broader behavioural tendency called bullying.  What is bullying? Bullying refers

Education

The Psychology Behind Stoicism

Stoicism is an ancient Greek philosophy founded in the 3rd century BC that focuses on how to live a good life by cultivating wisdom, courage, justice, and self-control. In recent years, Stoicism has seen a resurgence in popularity as a

Education

What is Emotional Intelligence?

Imagine if someone you know borrowed some money from you. He made a promise to return it by the end of that month, but somehow he didn’t do it. What will your response be? Will you become furious and call

Education

Psychoneuroimmunology

Psychoneuroimmunology is a multidisciplinary field that has come into existence in recent times. It studies the interactions among behaviour, the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the immune system (Brannon et al, 2014). Studies in psychoneuroimmunology often show a bidirectional

Crime

The Psychology Behind the Chilling Case of Jeffery Dahmer 

Jeffrey Dahmer was widely known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, an American serial killer and sexual offender responsible for 17 young men being brutally killed from 1978 to 1991. His shocking acts included murder, necrophilia, and dismemberment, shocking the world while

Education

Nomophobia: Symptoms, Causes and Prevention

In today’s world, it seems impossible to function without our mobile phones. From simple tasks like looking at the time, finding out what day it is, and looking at the coming week’s weather forecast, to crucial activities like connecting to