Psychological Science & Research Insights
Many of us want to improve memory for many reasons – to get more out of life, move ahead in jobs, ace exams, counter memory …
Read more10 Tips to Boost Memory & Delay Cognitive Decline [Reviewed]
There is a huge downside to being positive and happy that people don’t always acknowledge. And, there are bad ways to be happy. It could …
Read more6 Ways to Avoid Bad Happiness & Toxic Positivity [Tips + Mistakes]
Aren’t we lucky that our brain is readily capable of learning new things, even though we may not have the motivation? We grow about 700 …
Read moreWhat’s the best way to learn anything? Tips from science.
Have you watched sci-fi shows where geniuses quickly hack their way to build a prototype of a fancy piece of machinery from scrap? Or combine …
Read moreHow to Improvise & Create on the fly like Sci-fi Mad Scientists
There is a lot of talk about the benefits of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation. It’s almost common knowledge that mindfulness can positively affect our emotions …
Read moreInfinite Benefits of Mindfulness: Viagra for Cognition & Life
People try to make sense of their experiences. Some of that sense-making is pseudoscientific. The Sense-making fulfills psychological needs. That creates an emotional attachment to …
Read moreHow to counter pseudoscience; it’s not about the evidence
There is a general stereotype that intelligent or super-intelligent people are childish or immature. Why is that? Apart from the fact that some people appear …
Read moreWho appears intelligent? Why are some of them childish?
Summary: A new study argues that children reason if an animal is owned or not based on how much control the owner has on the …
Read moreKids reason that Caged Animals are Owned but Free ones aren’t
Phone addiction is one of the biggest non-drug addiction in human history. Studies show that excessive phone use is linked to procrastination, suicide (example), spoilt …
Read moreHow to overcome Phone Addiction [Solutions + Research]
A large number of people wish to learn psychology. And many more want to explore the subject with a higher level of detail than a …
Read moreBest Online Learning Resources for Psychology [2020]
When your friend gets cut on the arm, you clean the wound, apply medicine, and cover it up with a bandage. That’s basic first aid. But …
The world is in political upheaval, and people are rebelling against excessively proud groups of people that dominate or exude elitism. Many people have become …
Read moreCollective Narcissism: Proud Groups & Nationalism make us toxic
We seek meaning. We seek certainty. We seek explanations. Meeseeks purpose. People want to make sense of the world on almost every level of experience. …
Read moreSense-Making: How We Make Sense Of The World & Find Meaning
An interesting theory in psychology called the self-construal theory describes how we place ourselves in society. The self as a concept is quite vague, and …
Read moreSelf-construals in social psychology: Finding the self in society
I have covered the most Frequently Asked Questions about psychology and self-help in this post. Many of these common psychology questions focus on mental health, …
What is cognition? Cognition refers to all mental processes that lead to thoughts, knowledge, and awareness. The underlying processes are called cognitive processes. They govern …
Read moreCognition 101: Executive functions, Cognitive processes & abilities