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Awareness Positive

Masculinity and Emotional Suppression

From a young age, boys are taught to be strong. Not always are they allowed or made to feel safe enough to show emotion. A pressure to fit into society’s designed boxes of masculine expectations. Masculinity has long been associated

Awareness

The Neural Basis of Empathy: How the Brain Processes the Emotions of Others

Empathy is defined as the ability to take on another person’s thoughts and perspectives, to understand, feel and share and respond to their experience. It is often confused with sympathy, which entails the feeling of being sorry for someone’s grief

Awareness

Why Do People Hold Deep Grudges?

Grudges are referred to as a deep-rooted feeling of anger and frustration toward a person who is thought to have hurt or wronged the person. They arise from a conflict that is not resolved and in which one thinks another

Research

Social Curiosity: The Evolutionary Bond Between Humans and Chimpanzees

We’re all familiar with that experience of being at a cafe, calmly drinking your espresso, only to notice that you cannot stop leaning in to catch a glimpse of the mayhem on the other side. Picture them in action as

Social

Debunking the Alpha Myth: Gender Stereotypes and the Psychology of Power

Gender stereotypes have historically influenced societal expectations for men and women. The “alpha” concept has emerged as a way to understand dominant personalities, with “alpha males” embodying assertiveness, competitiveness, and leadership, while “alpha females”  exhibit similar traits traditionally viewed as

Parenting

Between Love and Resentment: The Emotional Journey of Siblings of Children with Special Needs

Picture yourself as a kid who has a little brother or sister needing round-the-clock medical treatment, special tutoring and constant emotional attention. Along with tender moments of sharing and pride, there remain intangible undertows of resentment, guilt and isolation that

Industrial

What Is Negotiation? 5 Key Styles and How They Vary Across Cultures

Have you ever noticed that you are negotiating every day, whether you realise it or not, from picking up your favourite food to convincing your parents for something, it stays there like an invisible thread. It’s not just about business

Education Therapy

The Stories They Make up: Analysing Children’s Apperception Test (CAT)

Individuals’ personalities are formed by their consistent actions, feelings, and thoughts (Bergner, 2019). Direct questionnaires are a common method to study personality, but they may not be useful to reveal unconscious thoughts and emotions. To solve that problem, psychologists invented

Positive Self Help

How to Cope with Mental Health in Conflict Zones

From our homeland to vast areas of the geographical landscape of the world, war always stands as an issue of extreme mental health challenges and family crisis, especially in third-world countries that deal with the idea of lost hope, homes,

Therapy

Disability-Affirmative Therapy

Disability-Affirmative Therapy (D-AT) is about providing people with disabilities a safe space to share their experiences and their take on disability, and how they are tackling this in various aspects of their lives. It also addresses the biases, prejudices, discrimination,