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Schizophrenia: What it is, Symptoms and Treatment

Schizophrenia: What It Is And How It Can Be Treated. Schizophrenia is a serious and chronic mental disorder that transforms a person’s perception of reality. It affects how one thinks, feels, and behaves. Individuals afflicted with this disorder undergo disorganised

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The Psychology of Human Development

Change is inevitable. As humans, we continue to grow from conception to death throughout our lives. Human development is a process of change and growth that shapes human physical, mental, and psychosocial development throughout life. Each of these includes all

Health

Alzheimer’s Disease: Causes, Symptoms, Signs and Treatment

Alzheimer’s Disease The psychological process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information is referred to as memory. Human memory is divided into three major categories: sensory, short-term, and long-term memory, where long-term memory is divided and sub-divided into other types of

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The Pathologization of Female Emotions

The Pathologization of Female Emotions When social networking sites are overflowing with memes and discussion of the “boys will be boys” mentality, there’s a question that needs to be asked. Is their behaviour being excused under this label as a

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The Psychology Behind Risk Taking

Risk Taking: The action of taking a risk or putting oneself in danger to accomplish a goal. Example: There is always some risk involved with starting a business. When making decisions in uncertain settings when the likelihood of both positive

Social

What Is The Psychology Behind Hate?

Hate is a negative feeling of hostility and aversion towards certain people, things, and ideas. Hate is often associated with feelings of fear, anger and discomfort. It often induces harmful behaviour and rift among the people and increases violence, discrimination,

News

Loneliness is a New Epidemic: WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is trying to hire specialists to combat loneliness, a recent epidemic in the field. It is an unpleasant emotional response to feeling alone. Another term for loneliness is social pain, a psychological process that drives

Education

Understanding Psychology Behind Fear and Phobias

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer,” reminds the protagonist from the movie Dune. However, fear is not necessarily a bad thing. It is a powerful emotion that has evolved in humans as a survival mechanism. But when fear

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Psychology of Misunderstandings

Have you ever been in a situation where you and a friend you were close to, somehow just faded away. Could have been because of a certain misunderstanding, lack of communication or holding onto the expectation that they would initiate

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A Deep Dive into Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers

In the spring of 2011, Eli Pariser in his book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You introduced the phenomenon of Filter Bubbles, where algorithms, search engines, and social media applications tend to present to you a