(Justin Deschamps) Answering the question: Why do people do bad things? is important. There’s a lot to unpack, and frankly, we’re still trying to figure this out. But we know enough to draw some pretty good and well-established conclusions. When people feel like their values, dreams, or life is threatened, they tend to react aggressively. If this reaction becomes chronic, blended with paranoid delusions and an environment where the individual is actually suffering, or being harmed by others, it’s much more likely they’ll eventually snap and start hurting people.
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Habitual Tea Drinking Modulates Brain Efficiency: Evidence from Brain Connectivity Evaluation
(Science Daily) The researchers recruited healthy older participants to two groups according to their history of tea drinking frequency and investigated both functional and structural networks to reveal the role of tea drinking on brain organization.
Why Is it so Hard to Forget a Past Love?
(Exploring Your Mind) It’s impossible to forget past love entirely. It doesn’t matter whether your relationship was very difficult or just a summer fling. We’re all made up of stories, and love is like a permanent ink in your brain.
What’s the Narcissistic Supply?
(Exploring Your Mind) Narcissists take for granted that their supply must feel, think, and act like them because, in their minds, the supply doesn’t have an identity of their own. Instead, they’re there just to please them at any time.
Theory of Mind: The Key for Interpersonal Connection
(Exploring Your Mind) Theory of mind facilitates human social connection. Thanks to theory of mind, you can deduce the intentions, thoughts, and desires of other people and adjust your behavior accordingly.
Frozen or Delayed Grief: Pain that Becomes Chronic
(Exploring Your Mind) The acceptance of a loss is never easy. It can be so difficult, in fact, that some people just can’t manage the suffering. Some of them set it aside, refusing to accept the new absence in their lives. Delayed grief can last decades and can become a reality where pain becomes silent and chronic.
The World’s Strangest Social Rituals
(Stillness in the Storm Editor) Social rituals exist for a good reason, as a way for the individual to gain acceptance in a culture. For the individual, they show them the norms they need to embrace in order to be included in a social group. These norms establish a basic ruleset that helps guide social interaction. […]
The Manifestations of Delusional Disorder
(Exploring Your Mind) Delusional disorder represents a great challenge for the sciences that study the human mind. It hasn’t been classified precisely yet, and experts still don’t know what causes it. As a result, there’s still a lot to learn about the best ways to treat it. Read on to discover all about the manifestations of delusional disorder and how we can treat it.
Is There Such a Thing as an Addictive Personality?
(Neuroscience News) Most of us know somebody who tends to get over involved in certain behaviors, and the saying often goes that they must have an “addictive personality”. But is there such a thing?
What Are Personality Disorders and How Are They Treated?
(Justin Deschamps) As one who studies psychology, I’ll be the first to tell you that it’s hardly perfect. Especially on the clinical side, drug companies and other interests have diluted the true power of understanding the nature of our being. This being said, there is much within the accumulated knowledge of psychology we can gain wisdom in studying. With this in mind, consider the following.
7 Reasons INFJs and INTJs Work Really Well Together
(Sarah Keene) I’m an INFJ who works as the assistant director of a performing arts program in the public school system. The head director, the person with whom I work most closely on a daily basis, is an INTJ personality type.
The Propensity to Hear ‘Voices’ in Schizophrenia May Be Established by Infancy
(Science Daily) Some people suffering from severe mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, hear “voices,” known as auditory hallucinations. This symptom, which afflicts more than 80% of patients, is among the most prevalent and distressing symptoms of schizophrenia.
Memory and Trauma: What’s the Link?
(Exploring Your Mind) In this article, we’re going to talk about the link between memory and trauma and the ways that an intense emotional disruption can impact your mind. Through the lens of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we’ll explain the difference between traumatic memories and regular ones.
The Parasympathetic Nervous System: Characteristics and Functions — The Inner Bringer of Peace
(Exploring Your Mind) Have you ever heard of the parasympathetic nervous system? It’s a vital and amazing part of your body.
New Baby Smell: How Newborn Babies’ Head Odor Facilitates Bonding
(Neuroscience News) A team led by Kobe University Professor Mamiko Ozaki (Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science) has become the first to identify the chemical makeup of the odors produced by newborn babies’ heads. The results shed more light on the olfactory importance of newborns’ heads in mother-baby and kin recognition. They also developed a non-invasive and stress-free method of sampling these odors directly from heads of the babies.