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Parenting

Before “No” Becomes a Word: The Childhood Roots of Consent

Eight-year-old Anaya had been at her grandparents for a family reunion. Before going home, her parents told her to kiss all the older people relatives-even though she seemed clearly uncomfortable and softly stated she didn’t want to. She was told,

Education

Viktor Frankl: His Life and Contributions

We all have our own identity. However, imagine you wake up one day, and your family,  home, profession, and freedom have all been taken away. Your name has been replaced with a number. You don’t know if you will even

Awareness Positive

10 Ways to Improve Emotional Intelligence

Consider the best person in a professional or personal setting. It is not necessarily the smartest, most technical, or most “right-minded” person. It is the person who appears to know what people are looking for. They remain calm when things

Awareness

Parapsychology and the Science of Paranormal Experiences

What if the human mind can see beyond the 5 senses? Is consciousness an independent reality or nothing more than the result of psychology and neuroscience? For centuries, experts in science, philosophy, and the general public have been pitting their

Awareness Technology

Digital Phenotyping: How Technology Tracks Mental Health

According to the World Health Organisation, more than a billion people worldwide live with a mental health condition, roughly one in eight of us, yet most of the information that clinicians know about a person’s mood still comes from a

Awareness Education

Neuroinflammation and Its Effects on Mental Health

A swollen ankle, a red wound, or a fever is easily detected as an inflammatory response because they are visible or readily experienced. But what happens if there is inflammation inside the brain? Could this affect how one feels, thinks,

Awareness

Bystander Effect: The Psychology of Helping Behaviour

People like to think of themselves as kind, caring and ready to help someone in trouble. Most would say they would step in to help if they saw someone in trouble. Yet both history and psychological research tell a different

Research

How Snoring May Damage Throat Muscles and Cause Sleep Apnea

Most people consider snoring something insignificant and not worth worrying about. However, scientists from Ume University in Sweden have discovered that snoring can actually harm the throat muscles and be one of the causes of obstructive sleep apnea, a condition

Relationship

Self-Distancing: The Psychology of Talking to Yourself in Third Person

Scientists’ research finds that when an individual experiences intense emotional reactions, talking to oneself aloud in the third person while pretending another person is present is a superior emotion regulation approach. A solution exists to reverse this situation: use third-person self-reference.

Education

Cultural Bias in Forensic Psychological Evaluations

Imagine the scenario of two individuals who both engaged in the same illegal activity. As a matter of fact, during the interviews, neither individual maintained eye contact, neither spoke before pausing briefly to consider their answers, and neither seemed to