Interventions designed to keep people safe can have hidden side effects. With an increased perception of safety, some people are more likely to take risks.
Each December, Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, among others, take over our thoughts and our wallets as we participate in ceremonies our ancestors have practised for as long as we can remember. These are all example of traditions. And in most cases, traditions are accompanied by rituals.
Christmas itself is hard if not possible to escape from entirely. But there are things you can do to manage your experience if you plan to spend time by yourself over advent.
Procrastination is an interesting form of delay which is irrational in the sense that we do it despite knowing it can have negative consequences.
What we emit into the world is picked up by others and it affects them as well.
Are we free or are our actions determined by the laws of physics? And how much free will do we actually want? These questions have troubled philosophers for millennia – and there are still no perfect answers.
Evidence shows that significant events in our personal lives which induce severe stress or trauma can be associated with more rapid changes in our personalities.
- By Beth Bell
I didn’t truly understand the phrase “never say never” until I started recognizing I was contradicting my so many of my own “nevers.”
Each human being may be part of something greater. Common phrases suggesting this reality include ’re all in this together” or “everything is connected.”
All significant choices move us toward or away from love. And the most important thing we learn in life is recognizing the choices and actions that bring us closer or farther from love. Each day is full of...
- By Lei Jia
Our first pair of studies looked at pet ownership data in U.S. states and compared that with several crude measures of risk-taking.
One question we set out to answer in our recent research. The answer has far-reaching implications for the way we approach major societal challenges such as diet and climate change.
Heat waves have been linked to a rise in depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms
After two long, difficult years of the pandemic, life has started to return to normal – or at least something resembling normal – for many people.
Tears serve multiple psychological functions. Tears act as a physical indicator of our inner emotional state, occurring when we feel intense sadness or intense joy.
Doomscrolling, according to Merriam-Webster, is “the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening,
Imagine that you are at work, and you witness a colleague repeatedly bullying another colleague. What would you do?
In 1928 Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, while studying the staphylococcus bacteria, noticed mould on his petri dishes inhibited its growth. He experimented, leading to the discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic.
In the past few years, people across the world have spent more time on video chat programs like Zoom and FaceTime than ever before.
Psychopathy is classified by psychologists as a personality disorder defined by a combination of charm, shallow emotions, absence of regret or remorse, impulsivity and criminality.
In the early 1990s, the renovations manager at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport decided to decorate each bathroom urinal with a realistic image of a fly, placed just above the drain. For decades, urinal designers had sought a way to curb the unpleasant spillage around urinals, and it turned out that by giving men something to aim at — in this case, a humble insect — spillage dramatically reduced.
With everything going on over the past couple of years, many people have changed their drinking habits
People with “dark personality traits”, such as psychopathy or narcissism, are more likely to be callous, disagreeable and antagonistic in their nature.