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Health

What is Rehabilitation Psychology?

Rehabilitation psychology is a quickly growing applied psychology field that is based on a biopsychosocial model of health and nourishes psychosocial support after the loss of somatic functions. It aims to help people with injury/illness-related disabilities gain healthy independence and

Self Help

Psychology behind Choices

In our lives, we face situations where we have to make choices. These choices could be good or bad depending upon the circumstances we are dealing with. Whatever we have today is the result of the choices we make. Making

Self Help

Psychology Behind Goal-Setting

Imagine yourself going to chess practice without having any major or minor reasons, or even writing your exams without a solid reason to do so. Making up such scenarios in our heads itself causes us discomfort as we think of

Awareness Self Help

Reciprocal Determinism in Psychology

Reciprocal determinism is a foundational concept in the field of psychology proposed by influential social cognitive theorist Albert Bandura. The theory states that there is never a one-way causality to human behaviour. Instead, behaviour emerges as an interactive product shaped

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Psychology of Assertiveness

Let us consider a situation. Imagine you just returned home after a bad day. You are sitting in your living room, trying to calm yourself down and rest. Five minutes later, your phone rings with your friend’s call. You take

Awareness

Psychology Behind Aha! Moment

Can you recall instances where you’ve suddenly found a solution to a problem or found the missing piece in it? Have you experienced that feeling where something just clicks at the right moment? If your answer was yes, you’ve experienced

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The Psychology behind Charity

Goodwill is universal. It can be easy to become consumed by the headlines and the problems of the modern world. But hopefully we can find solace in the knowledge that there are countless individuals in the world who devote their

Awareness

The Psychology of Delusions

A belief that is obviously false and denotes an anomaly in the affected person’s mental content is called a delusion. The person’s intelligence level or cultural or religious background do not explain the false belief. The degree to which the

Awareness Motivation

The Psychology Behind Choosing Your Role Models

Simply put, a role model is someone people look up to and serve as an example of, frequently considering them to be someone worthy of imitation. Every stage of life has role models, but children and young people are typically

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The Psychology behind Surprises

We all have become surprised in our lives and many of us like surprises. There are many instances where we have faced this emotion. Remember when you were working hard for the exam and many attempts passed, but, you did