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The Psychology of Power and Dominance: How They Shape Human Behaviour

Suppose you enter a company meeting and there is one person who is the CEO and another who is a recently hired employee. Even before either of them speaks, the atmosphere is already different. The employee will probably be closely

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

Research

Procrastination Reconsidered: A Research-Based Classification of Nine Behavioural Types

Everybody procrastinates at some point or another; however, the current exploration demonstrates that procrastination has little to do with “laziness” or poor “time management.” The examination, founded on recent research by Dr Itamar Shatz of the University of Cambridge, clarifies

Parenting

Tantrum or Meltdown? Understanding the Key Differences in Child Behaviour

We all have come across a child crying and screaming, absolutely refusing to listen to their parents or carers. We often assume the child is “throwing a tantrum”. However, not every emotional outburst is a tantrum. Just like adults, children do

Positive Self Help

Prosocial Behaviour: What Really Drives Us to Help Strangers?

People stop every day to donate blood, tutor a challenging classmate, replace a stranger’s flat tyre, or give up their bus seat. These little deeds fall into a larger category that psychologists refer to as prosocial behaviour, which is defined

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Why India Needed Indigenous Psychology: Culture and Human  Behaviour

Modern psychology had evolved in Western society within a cultural context that values individual freedom, independence and empirical reasoning. As a result, the initial psychological theories often emphasised the individual self rather than the social or spiritual dimensions of human

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How Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Helps Break the Anxiety Cycle

CBT helps to identify anxious thoughts that lead to an overload of physical symptoms. If it is more, it results in avoidance, thus increasing fear. CBT first identifies such thoughts, which are then checked against facts. Following this, the patients

Research

A Study of Team Life in Small Spaces: How Proximity Shapes Behaviour

When people live and work together in small places for months, what happens to them? This is a deal because people are going to be on spaceships for a long time soon. They will also be on submarines and at

Education Parenting

John B. Watson’s Personal Scandal and the Fall of Behaviourism’s Public Image

Psychology encountered many challenges throughout the 20th century as it was trying to become accepted as a scientific discipline, and one of those challenges was that of John B. Watson, who had great confidence as a psychologist and wanted to

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Mini Adults: Why Children Are Adopting Grown-Up Social Behaviours

The playground is quiet; instead of chasing one another, kids are seen sitting in the corner, thumbing at their phones, talking about followers, filters, and which post will get more likes. What was once a space filled with laughter and