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Self Help

Multitasking All Day? Here’s How It Impacts Your Brain

Ever find yourself answering emails during a Zoom call, texting a buddy, and scrolling Instagram between? You’re not alone. Multitasking is the way we feel efficient, like we’re conquering the world one notification at a time. But if you ever

Relationship Self Help

The Psychology Behind Always Wanting to “Fix” People

Do you usually catch yourself in a pattern where you’re continually trying to fix others, advising them, or jumping in to fix someone else’s issue even if they didn’t request it? Perhaps you even take pride in being the go-to

Health

How to Keep Your Brain Healthy: Tips from Neuroscience

It was just a week after her 68th birthday when Meera forgot how to get home from the nearby grocery store, which she had walked for over thirty years. When her son found her sitting on the pavement, confused and

Awareness

How Core Beliefs Shape Our Perspective and Behaviour

Think of moving through life with a pair of invisible spectacles that colour every experience, relationship and choice. These “spectacles” are our core beliefs—unconscious assumptions about the self, other people and the world. Often developed during childhood, they work below

Parenting

Why Children Who Are “Seen But Not Heard” May Struggle with Communication as Adults 

Nodding your head to everything that parents say is considered ideal behaviour in our society. People often perceive children who ask questions as being mischievous. These patterns in parent-child relationships have been followed for many generations. Even in the Gen

Life Style

Simple Self-Care Habits That Boost Your Mental Health

In today’s stressful world, it is common for people to be so busy with work, studies, home and other duties that they forget to take care of themselves. Being faced with financial hassles, high demands at school, and excess tasks makes

Life Style

Joy Over Hustle: Why Play Matters More Than You Think

The sitar case still zips shut. Eight months have passed. It sits in the corner like an old friend whom you haven’t phoned back. You get a peculiar mix of shame and sadness each time you pass it. The same

Education

Old School Libraries vs. New Age Media: Psychological Perspectives on Information Consumption

Key Takeways: 1. Traditional libraries enhance focus, memory, and mental well-being. 2. Digital libraries offer fast, flexible, and global access to information. 3. Screens can strain the eyes, reduce attention, and affect emotional health. 4. Printed books support deeper comprehension

Life Style

The Aesthetic Life: Exploring the Psychology of Visual Self-Branding 

“People will stare. Make it worth their while.”  Harry Winston Today, with visuals emphasised in digital life, how we present comes along with an insurmountable amount of solidarity and helps shape our perceived sense of self, connections and what we

Life Style

Emotion Regulation Across the Lifespan: Mechanisms and Outcomes

Managing emotional experiences helps us navigate social interactions, deal with stress and make decisions. This development of emotional regulation evolves significantly across an individual’s lifespan. From infancy to late adulthood, many mechanisms of regulation emerge and decline as we adapt