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Technology

Can Human Cognition Adapt to an AI-Assisted Future?

What happens when the machine next to you starts thinking with you? Imagine you wake up and tell an AI assistant to organise your day, filter your emails, suggest a nutritious breakfast, and help write that research paper you’re struggling with. For

Positive Self Help

When Stress Becomes More Than Stress: Understanding Chronic Stress

Everyone at some point in life will go through stress. Stress can be defined as a state of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation (World Health Organisation [WHO], 2026). When stress is constant in a person’s life

Self Help

Why “Others Have It Worse” Is One of the Most Harmful Mental Health Myths

“Wars are going on and people dying- one shouldn’t feel that way.” “Others have it so much worse than we do.” They are said more often than people realise, by other people or by the afflicted person, and they are

Life Style Positive

Better Sleep or Better Sales? The Psychology Behind Melatonin Gummies

You can now find melatonin gummies at nearly every pharmacy, as consumer-grade sleep medication packaging almost emulates prescription packaging using phrases like “clinically tested,” “deep sleep formula,” and “fall asleep faster, wake up refreshed.” The global melatonin supplements market was

Industrial

Why Night Owls Don’t Respond to Antidepressants: The Social Jetlag–Brain Connection

It’s now six thirty in the morning on a Tuesday when the alarm rings loud and clear. The woman who is about to wake up is Maria, an accountant aged thirty-four. She has slept for six hours, but her body

Research

Risk of Developing Parkinson’s Disease Due to Sleep Deprivation & Sleep Quality

This study examines whether sleep duration and subjective sleep quality are associated with risk for developing Parkinson’s disease (PD). This research is significant because Parkinson’s disease is prevalent among the elderly, and in many people, symptoms like shaking don’t emerge

Research Technology

The Dopaminergic Loop of Predictive AI Feeds: How Algorithms Hijack the Brain’s Reward System

How Logic Algorithms Hijack the Brain’s Reward Structure, and Why Isolation Makes It Worse. Just about every user of TikTok and Instagram Videos, or YouTube Shorts, can probably relate to a certain story. At some point in the evening, a

Education Research

Predictive Processing: Is the Brain Really a Prediction Machine?

Imagine waking up from your sleep and walking to your washroom to get your toothbrush in the usual place. Even before the eyes had fully registered the scene, your brain had predicted where the toothbrush was. However, if the toothbrush

Education

Lost in Time: Michel Siffre’s Cave Experiments and the Psychology of Isolation

Assume you wake up without a phone call or an alarm, no sunshine filtering through the curtains and telling you that it’s morning. There is no clock to let you know whether it’s day or night. Soon,  you find it difficult

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Transactional Analysis: Why you keep having the same argument with the same person

A friend of mine got some awkward feedback a few years back. A colleague told her that whenever her boss criticised her work, her voice changed. It went small and wobbly, apparently, like a kid apologising for breaking something, and