(Exploring Your Mind) The prevalence of depression is higher in women. However, according to several studies, this psychological condition may have worse consequences in men.
Psychology
The Grounding Technique for Dealing With Stress
(Exploring Your Mind) When you suffer a severe emotional shock, you may become confused and paralyzed. The grounding technique can help you stabilize and return to the present.
Biological Reality: Elected Officials May Be Psychologically Incapable of Representing Your Interests
(Ben Bartee) “I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.” -Albert Camus, The Stranger
Seven Keys to Developing Self-Efficacy and Feeling Competent
(Exploring Your Mind) Self-efficacy refers to the confidence you have in your abilities to achieve your own goals. It’s a basic dimension that conditions a good part of the future of plans that you draw up or projects that you undertake.
Why People Snub Their Friends With Their Phone
(Neuroscience News) Smartphones have made multi-tasking easier, more understandable, and at times compulsive. But in social settings, these devices can lead to a form of contemporary rudeness called phone snubbing, or phubbing, the act of ignoring one’s companions to pay attention to a phone.
Brain Memory Signals Linked to Blood Sugar Levels
(Neuroscience News) A set of brain signals known to help memories form may also influence blood sugar levels, finds a new study in rats.
What Does Having a Good Life Mean?
(Exploring Your Mind) The Greeks said that a good life is a process and not a state. They claimed it was the daily search to achieve well-being. However, this is a never-ending task.
The Myth of Adonis and the Red Roses of Love
(Exploring Your Mind) The myth of Adonis is a story about love and beauty. More particularly, it’s about incestuous love, along with the punishments and tragedies it leads to. To this day, the story remains a symbol of the impossibility of this kind of love.
How You Eat Defines Your Personality
(Exploring You Mind) It seems that how you eat is linked to your personality. At least, that’s what a rather curious experiment suggests. It identified up to ten types of personality according to the way you eat. Which one do you identify with?
Stress and Mental Health at the Woke Olympics
(Christopher Chantrill) All the usual suspects were rounded up when star gymnast Simone Biles did her Bartleby thing and decided she would rather not.
Are Lockdowns Saving Lives? Or Are They Destroying Them?
(Jeff Thompson) Most people would agree the pandemic and oppressive government lockdowns caused a dramatic escalation in mental health issues. A healthy person, confined to their home, with limited to no human contact, is likely to experience severe strain on their mental health.
Limiting Beliefs Equal a Limiting Life
(Exploring Your Mind) Reality is complex, dynamic, and full of uncertainty. Therefore, someone with limiting beliefs and an inflexible approach won’t just miss out on the nuances of life, but will also live in a state of continuous frustration. This is because the world doesn’t conform to their desires and expectations.
Empathy in Everyday Life
(Neuroscience News) Researchers at the University of Toronto are studying our capacity for empathy, or our ability to sense and understand someone else’s emotions, and are debunking some common misconceptions along the way.
Eating for Hunger or Pleasure? Regulating These Feeding Behaviors Involves Different Brain Circuits
(Neuroscience) Many times we eat, not because we are hungry, but because of social pressures or because the food is so appetizing, that, even though we are full, we just want another bite.
Toxic Positivity: The Dark Side of Positive Vibes
(Exploring Your Mind) Toxic positivity is an excessive and ineffective overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state across all situations. This article will address the dark side of this “positive vibes” trend.