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Research

The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences 

Many researches has been done to find out the effect of childhood trauma on emotional responsiveness towards negative stimuli or stressor, as a result we all know that childhood adverse experience influences how we react to the negative events. Interestingly, a new

Health

Neglected and Unaddressed: Post-Stroke Psychological Disturbances

A stroke patient in his 70s with a premorbid stubborn and aggressive personality refuses to step out or meet anyone, is irritable and shows frustration and anger in conversations. He is unable to accept his state of mental health making

Positive

Negativity Bias: The Hidden Force Behind Self-Doubt and Stress

The negativity bias is our propensity to focus on unpleasant events and to notice them more easily. This negativity bias, often referred to as positive-negative asymmetry, occurs when we experience the pain of a reprimand more strongly than the delight of

Social Technology

Why Are We All Gripped by the Ghibli-Style AI Image Trend? 

You scroll through your feed and pause. You see someone you know, but not quite. Their face is softer, their eyes wider, the background dreamier. They’ve been turned into a Ghibli character. So has your classmate. Your cousin. Your favourite

Awareness

Understanding Counter-Empathy: The Dark Side of Emotional Awareness

As social creatures, we have to express and share our emotions with others with the aim of building connections and bonding. Understanding others’ emotions comes with our own emotional awareness, and with that, we resonate and empathize with others’ different

Crime

Can You Be Brainwashed Into Committing a Crime? The Psychology of Coercion

How would it feel to wake up one day and realize you’ve committed a crime you never imagined yourself capable of? Sounds like something out of a psychological thriller, Right? Well what if I told you that in the right

Self Help

Beyond the Stressor: The Science of Emotion-Focused Coping

Emotion-focused coping refers to the technique of managing affective distress instead of focusing on the cause of the stress. Emotion-focused coping is especially useful where there is no possible way to change the stressor, including illness or loss. Such people try

News

Genes play a role in why we love Music 

A genetic twin study published in Nature Communications, shows that some of why we like the sounds we like is heritable. An international group including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, found genetic

Social

The Impact of Microexpressions on Social Perception

Consider the example of a person entering a room of strangers and feeling an inexplicable bond with one of them due to a fleeting smile at that person or consider when one of your friends is saying how happy they

Relationship

Why We Love Toxic People: The Psychology of Unhealthy Attachment

Have you ever been obsessed with someone who makes you feel just like a choice? Or maybe you keep going back to a relationship that drains the life out of you more than your 9-to-5? We’ve all been there—stuck in