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Awareness

Nudge Theory in Everyday Life: How Small Changes Shape Big Decisions

People often love to imagine themselves making rational, well-considered decisions about things based on weighing up all the pros and cons. But research into what’s called behavioural economics suggests otherwise: that actually lots of the time it’s more a matter

Awareness

Hysterical Blindness: Symptoms, Causes and Intervention

When the Mind Shuts Down Sight, Darkness comes, though the eyes that work just fine. Take this scenario: one morning, sight vanishes without injury, with no physical cause at all. The scans show nothing: no tumours, no lesions, no broken

Awareness Social

Internet Vigilantism in India: The Rise of Online Justice and Public Shaming

The Internet has revolutionised citizens’ engagement in public affairs. It has empowered the masses to create and share content via platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube. They report, uncover corruption, engage the masses and bring

Awareness Parenting

When Childhood Is Violated: The Lasting Impact of Child Sexual Abuse

Childhood is a period of learning and immense curiosity. Children are unaware of how the world functions and rely on adults around them for safety, care and guidance. They trust these people without question, but what happens when these very

Crime

The History of Forensic Psychology: How Crime and Psychology Became Connected

Humans often look at things with a black-and-white lens: if an action denotes something bad, it must be punished, and if another action denotes something good, it is rewarded. We rarely ever think about what goes on in the background,

Parenting

Tantrum or Meltdown? Understanding the Key Differences in Child Behaviour

We all have come across a child crying and screaming, absolutely refusing to listen to their parents or carers. We often assume the child is “throwing a tantrum”. However, not every emotional outburst is a tantrum. Just like adults, children do

Awareness Education

The Dark Side of Psychological Research: 5 Experiments That Changed Research Ethics

Should science be allowed to go so far? When the quest for knowledge can prove detrimental to the very people it studies? Psychology began as a science in the late 1800s, and throughout its history, it has generated some of the most

Relationship

Male vs Female Violence in Relationships: Is Gender Really the Main Factor?

For years, she had been telling her tale, but no one, before now, believed that her husband cried, flinched, and put bruises under his sleeves. When he eventually wanted to talk about it,  the people around him had a hard time

Social

The Dancing Plague of 1518 & Mass Psychogenic Illness 

What if an entire crowd could catch an illness without a virus? Assume, walking through a town square and witnessing dozens of people dancing wildly. At first, it feels like a lively celebration. As the hours and then the days

Awareness

Through the Mind: What Cognitive Science Has to Say on Sexual Fantasy

This article looks at cognitive science and psychological studies that tell us about sexual fantasy, why culture views the issue as unwanted, what shame causes in the body, and why discourse that many people fear having might matter beyond what