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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

Awareness Life Style

Is Marriage a Gateway to Lasting Happiness?

Most Bollywood movies end with a happily ever after of the main protagonists getting married, but what after that? Very few movies like Mrs S, starring Sania Malhotra as a Female character who marries with the dream of having a

Positive Self Help

Prosocial Behaviour: What Really Drives Us to Help Strangers?

People stop every day to donate blood, tutor a challenging classmate, replace a stranger’s flat tyre, or give up their bus seat. These little deeds fall into a larger category that psychologists refer to as prosocial behaviour, which is defined

Industrial

Why Promotions Don’t Always Increase Happiness

For years, you’ve been putting in extra hours, meeting deadlines, and foregoing weekends with family. All of it has been for that promised promotion. And today’s the day. You’ve been congratulated, there’s a hike in your paycheck, and a shiny new

Social

Why We Feel the Need to Document Every Moment: The Psychology Behind Constant Sharing

Imagine a woman eating a delicious meal with her best friends, with a beautiful candlelight on the table, laughing with joy. Before eating, she positions her phone for the best position, adjusts the lighting of the mobile, clicks several pictures,