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Entertain

What Makes a Song Catchy? Psychology, Personality, and the Brain

The experience of having a song stuck in your head—known as an earworm—is one of the most common and curious quirks of the human mind. It affects between 88% and 98% of people. And what’s more fascinating? This phenomenon shows

Education

What Is IGNOU’s 240-Hour Internship and Why It Matters for Psychology Students

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), one of the largest open universities in India, offers a range of courses, including the Master of Arts (MA) in Psychology. The MA programme in Psychology aims to provide learners with a sound

Self Help

The Psychology Behind Financial Gaslighting and How to Cope

Money is generally a sensitive topic in any relationship, whether between partners, family members, or even coworkers. However, when money is used to control, confuse, or manipulate another, that is where the line is crossed. This is what financial gaslighting

Health

How to Care for Someone with Alzheimer’s: Psychology Backed Tips

Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease is a journey filled with love, patience, and many challenges. It affects everyday life in small and big ways, as memory, thinking, and behaviour change over time. Caregivers not only need emotional strength, but

Self Help

How Audiobooks Improve Mental Health: A Narrative Psychology Perspective

Stories have always had a special place in human life. From the days of sitting around fires sharing myths to flipping through printed pages, storytelling has been a way for us to learn, feel, and connect. In today’s digital world,

Education

How Psychology Internships Benefit Students Pursuing Psychology

Psychology is not just a theoretical or conceptual subject; it also inclines towards empirical knowledge, which deals with practical experience. This experiential, realistic and practical knowledge is gained through internships, which give opportunities as well as required exposure to the

Awareness

The Psychology of Green Spaces: Why Nature Heals the Mind

Take a walk in the park, and you’ll likely feel better, calmer, clearer, maybe even a little happier. But why does this happen? What is it about green spaces like parks, forests, and gardens that seems to restore our mind

Education

Narratives of the Mind: Where Literature Meets Psychology

There has been a long-formed relationship between all creative endeavours that a man pursues with their psychology, such as reading and writing. Through studies and research, we have come up with the explanation or reasoning behind this complexity of our

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

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