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Social

The Psychology Behind Celibacy Experiments: A Perspective on Desire and Discipline

In a society where desire is freely expressed, why would someone decide to abstain from sexual activity? When people learn about celibacy experiments, this question often arises. It is considered discipline by some people. Some perceive it as a denial. However,

Parenting

The Role of Parental Supervision and Digital Literacy in Preventing Early Exposure  

Have you ever seen a child scrolling through the internet and suddenly coming across adult content? Have you ever seen a teenager watching inappropriate and pornographic content either intentionally or accidentally? The answer is yes for most people, and this

Parenting

The Silence Between Parents and Teens: Why Communication Breaks Down

Most parents remember a time in their children’s lives when everything was shared with them: what happened at school, their friendships, their worries and all the happy events. But as children transition from childhood to adolescence, many times, their conversations decrease

Education Health

Why Life Skills Matter in Education?

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to say no but somehow couldn’t and ended up being in an uncomfortable situation? Or has there been a situation where you felt anxious the whole day but couldn’t understand

Awareness Parenting

Sweet Trap: How High Sugar Diets Affect a Child’s Brain

Sugar is everywhere. It appears in breakfast cereals, hides in packaged snacks, and shines brightly from colourful wrappers in shops. Children are naturally drawn to it. They love the taste, enjoy the excitement it brings, and parents often give in

Awareness Parenting

How Internet Pornography Affects Children’s Understanding of Intimacy

Imagine a child scrolling on the internet and suddenly encountering adult content. A young teenager who does not fully understand intimacy and relationships may develop a wrong interpretation of closeness due to exposure to sexual content (Ybarra & Mitchell, 2005). This

Positive Relationship

Intimacy in the Age of Selfhood: How Autonomy and Algorithms Redefined Love 

It began as a murmur online, a quiet confession disguised as irony. Memes about “boyfriend embarrassment,” and threads where women half-joked, half-meant it when they said that being in love felt a little embarrassing now. Then came the Vogue article

Self Help

Can Reading Reduce Loneliness? The Parasocial Bonds We Form with Books

Loneliness is a hallmark of modern living in an increasingly digitised, disconnected and isolating culture. Even though social networks exist in the virtual space, a sense of connection seems to diminish as we sit in a false sense of connection,

Crime Education

Intersection of Law and Psychology: How Both Advocates for  Humanity

The legal system is a system of rules and institutions, but it is also a deeply psychological environment, where people’s perceptions, judgments and interactions matter just as much as any written law. Recent studies in legal psychology have shown that

Social

The Psychology of Social Rituals: Why Shared Substance Use Feels Like Belonging

It was a winter evening in Delhi. Archie, new to the city and her workplace, found herself invited to “ Chai with the team”. At first hesitant, she followed along. Sitting on the coffee terrace, sipping cutting chai in paper