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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

Research

Intelligence Without Awareness: A Neuroscientific Case Against AI Consciousness

The research article titled “Intelligence Without Awareness: A Neuroscientific Case Against AI Consciousness” examines an essential problem that arises in today’s world dominated by technologies: is AI intelligence (such as chatbots) really conscious, or is it only able to imitate

Education

Freud vs. MRI: Which Psychoanalytic Theories Still Hold Up Today?

Sigmund Freud never had any exposure to MRI scanners. Relying solely on his clinical couch, notepad, and decades of clinical observations accumulated from listening to his patients’  dreams, fears, and forgotten memories, he constructed a complete theory of the human mind. In

Awareness Life Style

Is Marriage a Gateway to Lasting Happiness?

Most Bollywood movies end with a happily ever after of the main protagonists getting married, but what after that? Very few movies like Mrs S, starring Sania Malhotra as a Female character who marries with the dream of having a

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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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