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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,

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The Psychology of Excitement: Why We Crave Novelty

Imagine a human thousands of years ago stepping beyond a familiar landscape. A new path could lead to danger, but it could also reveal a new source of food, water, or shelter. In an unpredictable environment, paying attention to what

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

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

Crime

Inside the Criminal Mind: Why True Crime Fascinates Us 

Today, suspense and thrillers are some of the most watched genres. A criminal event is terrifying in real life. Yet, millions love to watch documentaries and read books on criminology. The emotionally engaging content attracts a great audience. This fascination demonstrates

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

Research

B-Cell Depletion Enhances Protective Gut-Derived Cells in Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disability of long-term inflammatory illness in which your own immune cells mistakenly cause damage to myelin, the insulating sheath on nerves in your brain and spine. Treatments that temporarily deplete a type of B cell

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How to Tell if Someone You’re Dating Really Likes You

You get home after a good date and replay the whole thing anyway. The conversation moved easily, they laughed, they said they had fun. And still you cannot tell if any of it was real or simply good manners. That

Awareness

Hysterical Blindness: Symptoms, Causes and Intervention

When the Mind Shuts Down Sight, Darkness comes, though the eyes that work just fine. Take this scenario: one morning, sight vanishes without injury, with no physical cause at all. The scans show nothing: no tumours, no lesions, no broken

Awareness Research

Capgras Syndrome: When Loved Ones Become Imposters

Have you ever wondered how it is that we recognise someone as a loved one? The poets would absolutely say something like ‘my heart recognises them’, but when we really think about it, it all comes down to seeing them and