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10 Psychology-Backed Habits for a Happier, More Fulfilling Life

Happiness is something that one feels can only be realised upon reaching a particular milestone in their lives. These milestones may include a promotion, a salary increase, graduation, or owning an ideal house. However, the joy that one gets from accomplishing

Industrial Social

Why Young Indians Are Turning to Side Hustles

Imagine spending your evenings tutoring online, producing content, working as a freelancer, or managing a small business after a demanding workday. This has become a daily reality for an increasing number of young Indians. India’s gig economy is expected to

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Why the Quality of Friendship Matters More Than the Number of Friends

In a culture where followership is being counted on Instagram and Twitter, where the term friend has been short-circuited to “follower” and “following”, a simple question needs an honest answer: Does it matter if a person has friends? Decades of

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

Self Help

Can Emotional Intelligence Protect You from Digital Burnout?

The average person today wakes up in the morning and all that they do is spend hours switching between screens, responding to messages across various digital platforms and often end the day scrolling through social media. Although digital technologies have

Self Help

The Misconception of Boredom: Understanding Its Role in Cognitive and Self-Restoration

In today’s time, we observe people chasing instant gratification and being hyper-stimulated under the influence of dopamine addiction from doomscrolling or wanting to do something next or be someone better. It’s as if boredom is uncool, or sitting quietly in a

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Why Night Owls Don’t Respond to Antidepressants: The Social Jetlag–Brain Connection

It’s now six thirty in the morning on a Tuesday when the alarm rings loud and clear. The woman who is about to wake up is Maria, an accountant aged thirty-four. She has slept for six hours, but her body

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

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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

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