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fromYoga Journal
15 hours ago

This Influential Planet is About to Retrograde. Here's What it Means for You, According to Your Astrological Sign.

Jupiter retrograde in Cancer prompts emotional reevaluation, quiet realignment, and healing of long-standing inner patterns related to belonging and safety.
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fromFast Company
16 hours ago

3 stubborn management beliefs that sabotage lasting transformation

Deeply held assumptions and familiar influence techniques undermine organizational transformation; changing mindsets requires sustained, experiential rewiring rather than one-time persuasion.
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fromFast Company
17 hours ago

Courage can help you take bold action in your life and at work. Here's how

Courage is a choice that can be cultivated to act despite fear, enabling personal and professional growth and expanded potential.
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fromPsychology Today
11 hours ago

Faust, Dorian Gray and Psychopathy

Faust and Dorian Gray transform from innocence to hedonistic, psychopathic behavior driven by external tempters and inner predispositions causing destructive consequences.
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fromPsychology Today
7 hours ago

The Real Mensans of Orange County

High cognitive ability and need for cognition lead people to prefer complex, information-dense experiences and find intellectual appeal in reality TV like Real Housewives.
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Young Shooters: Is There an Online "Ecology of Extremism"?

By better understanding young shooters and the factors that influence the propensity to commit these crimes, we may be able to reduce the incidence of mass shootings. This post focuses on factors unique to the online ecosystems that many young people, especially young men, inhabit. While there isn't a universally accepted definition of a "mass shooting," roughly following The Violence Project and other researchers,
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

The Hidden Way You're Pushing People Away

Deep human connection requires reflective listening and genuine emotional engagement rather than reassurance or premature advice.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Caught up in a violent attack, would you be a hero or would you run? Both can be valuable | Emma Kavanagh

Humans respond to danger with fight, flight, or tend-and-befriend impulses, often converging to protect loved ones and assist after escaping immediate threat.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago
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Heroic actions are a natural tendency': why bystander apathy is a myth

People commonly act with spontaneous selfless heroism in acute threats, helping others rather than panicking.
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago
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Why Heroes Run Toward Danger

Heroism arises from learnable Courageous Optimism that combines self-determination, capability, and hope to enable purposeful action under extreme danger.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Wired to Watch: We Learn When We Observe

Observation and role modeling enable learning by synchronizing sensory perception and promoting vicarious, multi-sensory skill acquisition.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

They're not wolves they're sheep': the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers

Paul E Mullen became a forensic psychiatrist after exposure to mass shootings, specializing in stalking, child sexual abuse, and mass killings.
fromBuzzFeed
2 days ago

This Is The 1 Thing Cult Experts Want You To Do When Talking To Your MAGA Relatives

From there, he said to remember those good memories and focus on cultivating a warm and curious rapport that is centered around simple, effective, and concise questions that you already know the answers to. The questions can be along the lines of "Tell me more about why you believe this to be true?" or "Where did you get this information from?"
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

The Science of Expectation: How We Shape Our World

The brain constantly predicts outcomes and updates expectations through experience and neuromodulators, producing resilient or fearful expectations that shape behavior and identity.
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

What Once Saved You May Be What's Holding You Back

Now, in this final part (transformation), we follow Claire further: how her need for control - once an adaptive defence - turns into a closed system of fear, and how healing begins not by surrendering control, but by understanding what it has been protecting all along. Compensatory Narcissism and Mnemonic Anger Claire's discipline is often mistaken for pride, but it is, in fact, compensatory narcissism-not vanity, but a defence against humiliation, a defensive self-idealisation that repairs a wounded sense of worth.
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fromFast Company
4 days ago

Why psychological safety is the oxygen of innovation

Psychological safety is essential for idea-sharing and innovation; its absence silences contributions and undermines organizational success.
fromMedium
1 week ago

How grocery store layouts manipulate your shopping behavior

Have you ever gone grocery shopping with a grocery list of items to get, but then walked out of the store with more things than your grocery list? Grocery stores are spaces that are designed to make you spend more money. Strategic aisle placements and product positions follow a deliberate strategy rooted in consumer psychology and decades of behavioral research.
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fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Your Siblings: Who Are They Now?

Family stories and long-held sibling roles can trap relationships; recognizing changed identities and intentionally reshaping perceptions enables renewed connection and mutual appreciation.
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Finding a Psychologist of Colour Shouldn't Be This Hard

Systemic barriers cause a shortage of racialized psychologists, perpetuating inequity; diversifying leadership and collecting data are essential to produce accountable change.
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Why Some People Always Feel Angry and Unfairly Treated

Claire is 35, a highly accomplished architect known for her precision, discipline, persistence, determination, and clarity of thought. She has never been one for shortcuts. Through school and university, she was the kind of student who turned in clean drafts weeks before deadlines, earning her reputation as the straight-A girl who never left loose ends. Her teachers valued her efficiency, her peers respected her output, and her supervisors quickly learned she could be trusted with complex projects.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 days ago

Why We're Wired to ObeyAnd How to Reclaim Your Voice

Childhood obedience conditioning suppresses dissent; cultivating strategic defiance and the ability to say no enables corrective action and standing up to wrongdoing.
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

The "Inner Courtroom" Therapeutic Intervention

Survivors internalize unjust verdicts and can reclaim self-compassion through an Inner Courtroom that challenges guilt and rewrites their narrative.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

AI study gives insights into why super-recognisers excel at identifying faces

Super-recognisers identify faces more accurately by selectively sampling diagnostically informative facial regions, not merely by scanning more areas.
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

The Placebo and Nocebo Effects on Aging

However, a complicating factor witnessed in many clinical trials is that some patients who received the placebo or fake medicine show signs of improvement. This has become known as the " placebo effect." This can occur when a person believes the medicine they are receiving will result in better health outcomes. This psychological phenomenon suggests there is a strong mind-body connection. As shown with the placebo effect, positive expectations can actually result in positive outcomes.
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fromwww.psychologytoday.com
6 days ago

Understanding the Calamities of Childhood

Early childhood experiences and inevitable developmental challenges shape lifelong mental and physical health, with both adverse events and supportive caregiving influencing outcomes.
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Prime Your Noisy Mind

A brief calming 'priming' routine reduces self-critique, increases positive mood and distraction, and enhances intuitive decision-making and forward momentum for introverts and perfectionists.
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

When All You Feel Is "Bad"

Accurate differentiation of emotions improves stress coping and lowers depression risk, while undifferentiated negative emotions intensify and prolong psychological distress.
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fromFast Company
6 days ago

Move over, imposter syndrome. Hello, 'pedestal problem'

Authority bias causes deference to higher-status individuals, silencing ideas and preventing confident, impactful leadership.
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

A Simple Test of Your Emotional Clarity

Researchers in the area of emotions and cognition have long maintained that there are strong links between feeling and thinking. One approach in particular, the "broaden and build" theory, maintains that when you're upset about something, you view the world in terms of tiny details, but when you're happy, everything is covered in a big, rosy glow. It's impossible, the theory says, to draw a bright line between thoughts and emotions due to this process.
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Self-Oriented Perfectionism Is Obsessed With Status

You'll find a plethora of articles on how it affects the individual subscriber, citing the effects of excessively high standards for oneself on one's long-term motivation, self-esteem, and passion for one's work. Those articles consistently relate this form of perfectionism back to oneself. The problem, however, is that the preoccupation with self continues with a further preoccupation with self. "How does this affect me?" is the perfectionist's seminal question.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Even After They're Gone

When someone who truly sees us dies, the relationship transforms into an ongoing internal connection that shapes identity and fosters continued growth.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Stop Saving Your Real Life for Later-Start Living It Today

Believing life begins later—the arrival fallacy—defers happiness; acting now, changing language, and starting before feeling ready enables living fully.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

When the Brain Shapes Belief

Biological constraints and value-driven thresholds cause the brain to filter incoming evidence, producing confirmatory bias and divergent interpretations of the same information.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Why We Still Seek Our Parents' Approval-Even at Christmas

Intergenerational family patterns shape adult behavior; letting go of inherited roles and asking for help enables healthier connection and reduces perfectionism-driven isolation.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

3 Reasons Why Therapists Might Support Family Estrangement

Ethical therapists support family estrangement when it protects client safety and honors client autonomy and agency.
fromFast Company
1 week ago

Thousands of Redditors are dreaming of one uncanny shopping mall

"I always dream of the same mall." So begins a recent post on the popular subreddit r/The MallWorld. The post continued: "It has a very vintage feel to it. It always has warm amber lighting and wooden guard rails. It has 3 main floors, and one secret lower floor. "The lower floor is usually kept pristine, a time capsule of the 90's. The stores are closed, but the merchandise remains. It smells like my kindergarten class did.."
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Psychology, Crime, and "Modeling"

Bandura (1977) showed that human beings tend to imitate those who appear to be powerful, or to be rewarded for their actions. When a "model" was observed by children to assault a "bobo doll" punching bag, the children generally tended to attack the bag with greater frequency and intensity, especially if the model was an adult (and hence relatively powerful by child standards), or was seen to be rewarded for the violent action. This "modeling" behavior was basic to the development of social learning theory.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

The discovery that linked signature size to narcissism

Large, bold signatures correlate with higher status and stronger self-regard; Donald Trump's signature exemplifies this pattern.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Magic Words That Will Get What You Deserve

Small linguistic choices like "helper" or "because" can shift behavior from resistance to cooperation by appealing to identity and social cues.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Adopting an Outlook of Personal Control

Years ago, I identified "personal control" as a key component of a resilient outlook and a resilient life. I defined personal control as the ability to focus our time and energy on factors over which we have some influence rather than on situations over which we have little, if any, control. Resilient people have learned to cope effectively with challenges and adversity and demonstrate personal control.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

Is having too much money immoral? Research shows it depends on your values and where you live

Cultural context and moral intuitions—especially equality and purity—shape whether people view extreme wealth as immoral, producing polarized attitudes toward billionaires.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

Why Einstein called awe the fundamental emotion

Awe is a fundamental emotion felt in response to vast mysteries that fuels creativity, science, wonder, and cultural connection.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Victim Mentality Is a Trauma Response, Too

When someone has had an experience or series of experiences wherein they were powerless, that sense of helplessness can get stamped onto their perceptions. Psychologists have known this for decades. As early as 1967, an experiment subjected dogs to repeated shocks in such a way that the dogs could not predict when they would be shocked (Overmier and Seligman, 1967). Over time, the creatures simply accepted the shocks and became docile.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Therapist in "Nobody Wants This" Is Abusive

A therapist engaged in a romantic relationship with a client, using manipulative, exploitative tactics, which violates APA ethical standards and is reportable.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Snow, Romance, and Self-Sabotage: Hallmark's Holiday Hits

Fear of disappointing parents often masks personal struggles for autonomy, leading to people-pleasing and self-sabotage in relationships.
fromTiny Buddha
2 weeks ago

The Hidden Lesson in Projection: It's Never Really About Us - Tiny Buddha

"What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering." ~Don Miguel Ruiz For most of my life, I didn't fully understand what projection was. I just knew I kept becoming the problem. I was "too much." Too intense. Too emotional. Thought too deeply. Spoke too plainly.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

5 Ways Play Boosts Trust and Empathy

Play first stirs in the mutual, musical back-and-forth cooing of mother and infant. This proto-play practices attunement. Before we learn to talk, we learn to chortle and gurgle and babble and hum along. Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson noted that this pleasurable and surprising dialog "negotiates the first interpersonal encounters, the light of the eyes, the features of the face, and the sound of the name [as they each] become essential ingredients of a first recognition by the primal other."
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fromNature
2 weeks ago

How do you know what I know you know? Steven Pinker on common knowledge

Common knowledge—mutual, recursively shared awareness—enables coordination and explains social cascades like shaming mobs, cancel culture, revolutions, and market bubbles.
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

I tracked my moods every day for almost 5 years. One habit skyrocketed my happiness.

For almost five years, I've been dutifully drawing little green dots at the top of my journal entries. A small green dot means it was a generally good day, a slightly bigger one that it was pretty fantastic. A huge one represents one of the handful of no-notes, absolutely perfect days of the year. Orange dots equal stress, red denotes anger, and blue means feeling blue.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Some People Can't See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and took them to be evidence that he had been a happy child, although he didn't remember making them. When he was seven, in the summer of 1969, his father woke him up to watch the moon landing; it was the middle of the night where they lived, near Southampton, in England.
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fromHuffPost
2 weeks ago

The 6 Most Common Things Oldest Siblings Bring Up In Therapy

Oldest siblings often become responsible, perfectionistic, and caretaking due to trial-and-error parenting and adult role models, leading to distinct therapeutic concerns.
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fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago

Legendary Comedian Dana Gould Live in SF (Punch Line)

Dana Gould, acclaimed comedian and former Simpsons writer, performs live at Punchline Comedy Club in San Francisco, November 20–22, 2025.
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fromHarvard Gazette
2 weeks ago

'We don't need zombies to do ourselves in as a species' - Harvard Gazette

Horror elicits safe fear, cognitive engagement, thrill-induced dopamine surges, and cathartic emotional release, making zombies particularly terrifying as symbolic threats.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Move over, Claudia: how Jonathan Ross became a Traitors style icon

Jonathan Ross's flamboyant and varied outfits on Celebrity Traitors have become a major source of anticipation, contrasting with contestants' attempts to remain inconspicuous.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

A cure for toxic work

The term 'toxic workplace' surged after 2010, naming previously silent workplace dysfunctions like burnout, manipulation, gaslighting, and protective power dynamics.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Lessons of "The Trick-or-Treat Study"

A field experiment observed 1,352 trick-or-treating children to assess effects of anonymity, group dynamics, and assigned responsibility on taking candy or money.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Let Your Dreams Dictate the Personality Traits You Develop

Personality is malleable: daily choices, thoughts, and actions shape traits, so goals and dreams rather than fixed 'types' should guide development.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Spirited Child Approach: Calm, Connect, and Coach

The amount of often conflicting advice for parents and caregivers available on social media can feel overwhelming. How does one even begin to sort through this overabundance of advice, much less figure out what is best practice for building healthy relationships? The Spirited Child Approach has been developed over decades of working with families of spirited children who are typical and yet more intense, persistent, perceptive, sensitive, and energetic. It interweaves findings from the fields of temperament, secure attachment, sleep, development, resiliency, neurobiology, and self-regulation.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Father's Shadow Over a Daughter

A father's presence or absence critically shapes a daughter's psychological development, self-agency, bodily connection, and influences personal and collective unconscious patterns.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Woman in the Mirror: The Puella

Puella represents a young, naive woman resisting aging whose repression of shadow causes insecurity, depression, and imposter feelings; integrating shadow enables authentic creativity and commitment.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

When Older Is Not Only Wiser, But Nicer

Older adults are often mocked ("OK, Boomer!"), set off to the side, or treated as incompetent nuisances, at least in much public discourse. So, where did the expression come from? In earlier times, older adults were treated as the repository of knowledge, elders who could provide sage advice to the less polished members of younger generations. There is, then, a tradition of viewing older adults as valued and respected members of their communities.
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fromBustle
1 week ago

Guilty Of Overspending? Try Removing "Visual Noise"

Covering product labels reduces visual noise, helps focus on items' function, lowers overstimulation, and can decrease urge to overconsume.
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fromeLearning Industry
1 week ago

Metacognition In Workplace Learning

Metacognition enables employees to plan, monitor, and evaluate their learning, improving application, adaptability, and professional growth.
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fromForbes
1 week ago

3 ChatGPT Prompts To Master The #1 Soft Skill To AI-Proof Your Job

Creative thinking is the indispensable complementary skill to AI, essential for original problem-solving, authentic professional output, and long-term career resilience.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

What Is Egocentrism?

Egocentrism has to do with failing to understand that others may be experiencing an object or event differently than you are. Egotism, on the other hand, has to do with failing to appreciate that the needs and interests of others are as important as one's own. Egocentrism is a cognitive domain largely independent of one's personality, while egotism is a personality trait that is largely independent of one's level of cognitive functioning.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

When the Therapist Feels Caught Off Guard

Therapists, including experienced clinicians, require ongoing supervision and consultation to navigate boundary complexities and ethical challenges in psychedelic-assisted therapy.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Is Ignorance Really Bliss?

Adults often avoid readily available, personally relevant information, a tendency that emerges as childhood curiosity shifts into selective information avoidance.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

Got 3 minutes? This habit may help boost hope and reduce stress

Three to five minutes of daily inspiring videos increases feelings of hope and predicts lower stress over the following ten days.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Which Is Worse: Antagonism or Aggression?

Antagonism, distinct from aggression, can be detected through everyday cues and an Antagonism scale improves identification of problematic personality traits.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Breaking Bad: How to Fight Back Against Repetitive Cycles

Repetition compulsion is an unconscious drive to recreate past traumas, keeping individuals in familiar, harmful cycles that awareness and memory integration can help break.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Why We Think Others Lie More Than We Do

When a rival lies or cheats, we demand justice. But when a friend does, we offer excuses. Equally, we believe our team plays by the rules while others bend them. Yet honesty depends on the messenger. When someone from our in-group bends the truth, we call it strategic, but when the out-group does it, we call it deceit. In a modern era of algorithmic bubbles, deep fakes, and partisan feeds, the cost of this bias grows.
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fromMedium
1 week ago

Hoping for the long-term

Time is a fluid, human-centered perception shaped by memory, emotion, culture, and personal context.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Danger of Weaponized Attachment

Emotional closeness is used strategically to create and destabilise attachment, making love a tool for sustaining coercive control and normalising abuse.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Exclamation marks! Why do women use them three times as much as men?

Women use exclamation marks far more than men, which boosts perceived warmth but reduces perceived analytical competence and professional authority.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Slang terms like six-seven' have no definition. But they're loaded with meaning | Matthew Cantor

Young people adopt meaningless or shifting slang like "six-seven" to signal identity, differentiate from older generations, and create social belonging.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Monsters in the Mind: The Frankenstein Collector

Collecting Frankenstein memorabilia transforms abstract emotion into tangible artifacts that connect memory, identity, and neurochemical reward systems.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

A new study found a surprising source of social media toxicity

Toxic behavior on social media spreads primarily through ingroup exposure, as users mirror toxicity to signal loyalty and belonging, amplified by platform design.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

I'd have been shattered in year 12 if I'd studied the wrong Caesar for my exam. Wouldn't you? | Paul Daley

High-stakes exam anxiety can persist for decades, producing recurring nightmares and intense physical reactions.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Am I a type A personality - and should I care? | Arwa Mahdawi

Type A personality arose from a secretary's observation, was popularized and monetized by cardiologists, co-opted by industry, and persists in modern personality trends.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Why do we yawn? It's almost certainly not for the reason you think

Yawning occurs across vertebrates and is not driven by oxygen or carbon dioxide levels; respiratory explanations have been experimentally refuted.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The immoral, unthinkable' political dispute rupturing a friendship requires a delicate therapeutic approach I Bianca Denny

Political and social stress intensifies friendship conflicts, and parts work (Internal Family Systems) can clarify conflicting emotions to help preserve relationships.
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The 3 Kinds of Connections You Need to Flourish

Connectedness with self, others, and purpose underpins flourishing; self-love—composed of self-contact, self-acceptance, and self-care—strongly predicts well-being.
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

7 Signs You Grew Up With a High-Conflict Parent

High-conflict parents prioritize their needs over children's emotional well-being, producing long-term anxiety, self-doubt, relational trauma, and potential brain changes in adult survivors.
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Why Finding Meaning Feels So Hard

Meaning and purpose motivate humans but are often elusive; practical action, acceptance of complexity, and values-aligned commitment must accompany reflection.
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Hidden Link Between Social Anxiety and Problem Drinking

Social anxiety often leads individuals to use alcohol as self-medication, creating a hidden link to problem drinking.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

The book that's getting me through the end of the year

Mental discipline and neutral thinking built through routines and studying successful predecessors enable sustained performance and results during high-pressure periods.
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

3 Ways to Beat the 'Peak-End Rule' in Your Relationship

When it comes to love, this rule doesn't just distort memory; it reshapes how we evaluate our relationships. It influences the way we decide whether to stay, go, or grow. That makes it far more than a curious quirk of memory. It is, in fact, a bias with real consequences for how we choose and sustain our bonds. Understanding how the peak-end rule works can help us consciously redesign our relationships in ways that resist such distortion, allowing us to remember them more truthfully.
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fromBig Think
2 weeks ago

How your cognitive biases lead to terrible investing behaviors

I think a lot of people don't realize that investing is a problem that's been solved. We know what the average returns are for equity, for fixed income. We know what inflation looks like over the long haul. We know what the economy broadly does, what the range looks like. The variable, the wild card, that we haven't yet solved for is our own behavior.
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Empathy and Compassion: The Science Behind the Feelings

Empathy triggers compassion that supports social bonds, varies by gender, age, and political preference, and both can be cultivated through Compassion Meditation.
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