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5 Psychological Strategies to Ease Your Child’s Anxiety Before a Dental Checkup

A trip to the dentist terrifies many children. For a young mind, a clinic offers a harsh mix of psychological triggers, like strange sights, clinical smells, bright lights, loud noises, and a complete invasion of personal space. Doctors call this fear

News

Breaking the Silence: India Moves Closer to Comprehensive Sex Education in Schools

In a significant policy development that could reshape adolescent education in India, the Central Government has informed the Supreme Court that it has accepted an expert committee’s recommendations to introduce Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) in schools and colleges. The proposal,

Industrial

Why Promotions Don’t Always Increase Happiness

For years, you’ve been putting in extra hours, meeting deadlines, and foregoing weekends with family. All of it has been for that promised promotion. And today’s the day. You’ve been congratulated, there’s a hike in your paycheck, and a shiny new

Social

Why We Feel the Need to Document Every Moment: The Psychology Behind Constant Sharing

Imagine a woman eating a delicious meal with her best friends, with a beautiful candlelight on the table, laughing with joy. Before eating, she positions her phone for the best position, adjusts the lighting of the mobile, clicks several pictures,

Research

Is Comforting Others Innate or Learned? What Psychology Research Reveals

The research paper titled “Comforting Others Is a Cultural Trait, Not a Universal Instinct” describes how individuals belonging to different cultures comfort those close to them when they feel distressed. The significance of this issue arises from the fact that

Awareness

Digital Identity vs Real Identity: How Social Media Shapes Who We Are

Imagine you are meeting someone new with whom you have been frequently communicating online. This is the very first time you are meeting in person, and you are feeling like you already know them, their hobbies, favourite colour, achievements and

Awareness

The Psychology Behind Self-Medication

Have you ever diagnosed yourself, or have you ever self-medicated, only because you didn’t want to visit your physician or because the health issue was minor? Many individuals give many reasons behind self-medication. They will either take the medicine from

Awareness Health

Patient H.M.: The Man Who Could Never Form New Memories

For over half a century, each morning, a man would get up and think, “Oh, it’s still 1953”. He didn’t even recognise himself in the mirror; he was expecting to see a young man, not an old man! He was able to

Therapy

Retail Therapy: Comfort or Coping? Why We Shop When We’re Stressed

It has not been an easy week for you, and here you are at midnight, browsing through an online store and filling up your shopping cart with things that you don’t even need. Do these instances sound familiar to you? They have

Positive

Is It Okay to Laugh at That? The Science of Dark Humour

Have you ever encountered that stand-up comedy video in which the comedian says, “We are the only country in which we find garbage in a garden and a baby in a garbage bag”? Well, that is an oops moment where