(Exploring Your Mind) Violence within the family always has long-lasting effects, whether direct or indirect.
Psychology
Live Fast, Die Young? Or Live Cold, Die Old?
(Neuroscience News) Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from Wenzhou University and the University of Aberdeen, have found that body temperature exerts a greater effect on lifespan than metabolic rate.
Daily Photo Sharing Might Mean Double Depression Risk
(Neuroscience News) The rate of reported depressive symptoms that are likely to require treatment has more than doubled by the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic among those who most often share pictures or videos of themselves on social media, according to a recent study published in The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies.
Live Fast, Die Young? Or Live Cold, Die Old?
(Neuroscience News) Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from Wenzhou University and the University of Aberdeen, have found that body temperature exerts a greater effect on lifespan than metabolic rate.
How Children Learn to Lie
(Exploring Your Mind) Children learn to lie pretty early on in life. How often they choose to do it, depends on a number of factors.
Why the Forbidden is So Tempting
(Staff Writer) Something that’s forbidden becomes instantly more attractive.
How to Tell the Difference Between Real and Emotional Hunger
(Exploring Your Mind) Emotional hunger generates consequences for your physical and mental health. Knowing how to differentiate it from real hunger is the first step in being able to act on it.
Eight Signs That Tell You You’re Thinking Too Much
(Exploring Your Mind) Thinking too much has both physical and mental consequences. Nevertheless, you’re often not aware of this habit. Here, you can learn how to identify it.
Stage Two of Mass Psychosis Taking Hold
(Dylan Charles) It wasn’t but a week ago that our future looked brighter than it had in the last two years. The mandates were lifting and science was finally switching teams to join the side of rationality.
Blocking Out Experiences Because You’re Afraid of Suffering
(Exploring Your Mind) Blocking out experiences for fear of suffering is an avoidance behavior. It’s also a way of feeding the anxiety that you fear so much. In this article, we’ll talk about good and bad coping strategies for managing these kinds of experiences.
Lockdowns Crush Mental Health and Wellbeing in Young People
(Ellen Townsend) Has the mental health time bomb that was predicted in young people as a result of mandated pandemic restrictions come to pass? Sadly, study after study has shown this to be the case. Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, many experts were concerned about the impact of SARS-Cov-2 and mandated restrictions to attempt to curb the spread of the virus. Position pieces from mental health and suicide prevention experts noted particular areas of concern – the needs of young people were highlighted. Suggestions for mitigations were offered. Open letters signed by eminent psychologists and paediatricians in June 2020 urged the government to prioritise children and get them back to school. The government cannot say they were not warned.
Nostalgia Can Relieve Pain
(Neuroscience News) Reflecting on fond memories goes a step beyond making you feel warm and fuzzy: nostalgia can reduce pain perception.
Do Not Believe Absurdities, No Matter How Often They Are Repeated
(Joanna Miller) “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” –Voltaire
The Emotional Rescue Exercise
(Rosanne Lindsay) When crisis strikes, emotional rescue exercises can manage whole populations through behavior modification to distract them from something else.
The Forgotten Tool Against Stress
(Exploring Your Mind) To combat the stress that surrounds you every day, you just need to spend a few minutes resting your body and mind.