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The Psychology Behind Excusing Bad Behaviour 

Think about this: Your favourite well-known individual ends up getting involved in a dispute. Even when the charges are serious, and the evidence is clear, you can’t help but make excuses. “Maybe it’s not as bad as it seems,” you

Awareness Self Help

Should You Share Your Secret? The Psychological Impact of Keeping Things Hidden

May I share a secret with you? You might not want to answer “yes” the next time the question is posed to you. According to social psychologist Michael Slepian, PhD, an associate professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business

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The Hidden Link Between Overthinking and Anxiety You Need to Know

For instance, you are shortlisted for an interview for your dream job, and yet you can’t stop yourself from constantly pondering over the situation. Repetitively playing possible questions in the mind, doing rehearsals of responses, and envisioning you will create

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Attending to Ageing and its process: Understanding the journey of growing older 

Ageing is the progressive process of getting old. This takes place over the entire lifespan. People who are 65 and above are considered as elderly people. The pace at which ageing occurs is much faster while considering the past. Let’s

Education

12 Branches of Psychology 

You may always wonder about people’s behavior in different contexts. Sometimes you may even think about yourself – your own thought patterns, behaviors, and interests. As you know, psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. From the

Awareness

Understanding Food, Memory, and Generational Trauma through Psychological Lens

Did you know that our eating habits are inherently tied to the trauma we may have inherited from our ancestors? Yes! Our current relationship with food can be traced back to the diverse struggles faced by our previous generations and

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Grief, Growth, and Resilience: The Psychological Effects of Dark Tourism

One of the most notable challenges that human race is desperate for, is fear of death which is a shadow that looms larger than the death itself. Natural catastrophe, starvation, insurgency, biowarfare etc. are some cases that make this misery

Parenting

The Psychology Behind Mother-Daughter Relationships

As a daughter, have you ever identified which set of behaviours you might have emulated from your mother and how your actions can be starkly different from your mother’s own? It can reveal a lot about you as a person

Awareness Therapy

Is it possible to treat people with Substance Use Disorders using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)? 

Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) can be defined as “a cluster of cognitive, behavioural and physiological symptoms indicating that the individual continues using the substance despite significant substance-related problems” (APA, 2013). It can arise from a maladaptive pattern of behaviours and

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Technophobia: Understanding the Fear of Technology

One of the psychological disorders, also known as psychopathological disorders, which most individuals face due to immense trauma creating an overall disturbance in their mental state regarding either a specific object or a particular scenario is phobias. Apart from phobias,