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Awareness

How Adolescents’ Brains React to Explicit Digital Content: What Research Shows

Today’s adolescents have access to a variety of content. In fact, a 14-year-old today is exposed to more explicit content in a week than a modern-day adult was back in all of their teenage years. They are exposed to a variety

Social

The Psychology of Social Rituals: Why Shared Substance Use Feels Like Belonging

It was a winter evening in Delhi. Archie, new to the city and her workplace, found herself invited to “ Chai with the team”. At first hesitant, she followed along. Sitting on the coffee terrace, sipping cutting chai in paper

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Reframing Social Rejection Through Cognitive Behavioral Techniques

Most people face social rejection at various points in their lives. A friend may ignore a message. A colleague may leave someone out of a plan. A group may not respond to the way a person expects. These moments often bring

Relationship

Emotional Resettling in Close Relationships: A Psychological Lens 

Emotional resettling is getting back to emotional balance after having quarrelled or gone (distanced) in a close relationship. It is something of a down-to-nothing reset that makes people reconnect and feel safe with one another once again. Nowadays, more than

Awareness

The Psychology of Influence: How Podcasts Can Misguide Listeners 

Consider listening to a podcast while doing household chores or driving your car on the way to the office. A guest invited on the podcast speaks confidently that a particular habit “changed  their life.” You believe in what the guest

Technology

Will AI Change the World for Everybody? An Inclusive Perspective

“Just imagine a city where a new AI app promises to make daily life easier, from helping with job searches to booking appointments. But for some people, especially those who don’t speak the dominant language or don’t have good internet

Positive

How Teaching Neurodiversity Shapes Children’s Emotional Intelligence 

Childhood can be described as a world of small wonders, such as first friendships, first arguments, and first efforts to unravel what another person may be thinking or feeling. Beneath these commonplace instances is more. A deeper, slower transformation of the

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Why Social Conditioning Makes Us Fear Being Called Radical

Family, school, and society always teach us what is right in thinking, acting, or behaving since we are young. These rules are entrenched in us to the extent that we act on them without even being conscious of it. To

Research

Sex Differences in Neurobiology: Risk and Impulsive Studies 

A new study was conducted to understand impulsivity and risk-taking through specific reward-related neural circuits. These two were associated with timings and biological sex in complex ways. During the learning phase of the rat Gambling Task (rGT), the circuits were

Awareness

Mastering Emotional Regulation: Techniques to Manage Stress and Improve Mental Health

Stress can be brought on by a variety of important factors, or stressors. The stress response is the result of the human brain using information gathered from previous or new behaviours in response to a perceived threat in the environment