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- Who Do You Think ‘You’ Are? Get a Meta-Perspective on Your Three Selves for a Liberated Mind
- Why You Need Self-Compassion More Than Self-Esteem in Difficult Times, Study Shows
- Negativity Bias: Why Negative Things Stand Out
- Almost All People Want to Change Their Personality, Study Finds
- How to Give the Best Gifts, According to Psychological Research
- Study: Your Generousity Creates More Generousity and Empathy in Others
- The Intuitive and Analytical Thinking Style: Which One is Yours?
- Analytical Thinkers are More Skeptical About Religious Ideas, Research Shows
- Anger Impairs People’s Cognitive Scope, Study Shows
- Study: Higher Income is Related to Less Daily Sadness but Not More Daily Happiness
- The Reasons Why People Maintain Negative Self-Evaluations
- The Three Most Basic Psychological Needs, and Why We Need to Satisfy Them
- Don’t Fear Responsibility Because ‘With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility’
- Social Effectiveness Therapy Beats Social Anxiety, Study Shows
- Psychology Resources: List of Blogs, Databases, and Videos
- The Saying ‘I Know How You Feel’ is Flawed, From a Psychologist’s Perspective
- Does Brain Training Work or is it a Waste of Time? This is What Research Shows
- The Affect Heuristic: How We Feel is How We Think
- Write Down Your Thoughts to Become More Mindful and Consciously Aware
- People Who Are Consciously Aware of Their Emotions Deal With Them More Effectively, Study Shows
- A 100-Year Old Word Repetition Technique is Effective in Reducing the Impact of (Negative) Words
- 7 Wonderful Live in the Moment Quotes
- Does Your Pursuit of Self-Esteem Damage You?
- How Your Social Network Influences Your Romantic Relationship
- Study: Anxious Parents May Attribute Negative Emotions to Their Children
- Can People Hold 7±2 Objects in their Short-Term Memory or What?
- 4 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself to Grow as a Person
- Study: Vacations Decrease Work-Related Stress, Especially in “Obsessive” Workers
- Wear the Right Clothes and Make the Right Impressions on Others: Dress to Impress
- Study: Choosing Products With Attractive Designs Affirms People’s Self-Image
- The Swedish 6-Hour Workday Experiment: A Brilliant Idea or Not?
- Stop Comparing Yourself to Others: Find Inner Peace With 3 Principles
- Study: Being in Love is Associated With Reduced Cognitive Control
- 20 Important Life Lessons I Learned From Running
- 12 Common Irrational Beliefs
- Are You Mind Full or Mindful?
- How Do People Deal With Too Many Options? (A Look at The Choice Overload Hypothesis)
- 4 Reasons Why Some People Are Afraid of Happiness (Why Happiness Isn’t an Universal Ideal)
- Why Positive Self-Talk is Essential in Sports
- Moderate Levels of Stress Enhance Learning, While High Levels of Stress Impair Learning
- The Psychology of Music: Why We Listen to Music and How It Affects The Mind
- 5 Classic Self-Discovery Quotes
- This Month’s 10 Most Popular Psychology Articles (May’14)
- Why Should I Forgive? Forgiveness Helps You Forget and Move On
- 3 Reasons Little Achievements Matter
- A DSM-5 Definition of Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Cognitive Dissonance: Why We Lie to Ourselves
- Three Principles to Help You Develop Self-Compassion
- 4 Ways Mindfulness Meditation Improves Well-Being
- Even A Fish Can Learn (Aquarium Experiment of Classical Conditioning)
- Most People Care About Animals So How Can They Eat Them?
- 20 Key Theories in Psychology
- Does Confidence in Your Memory Mean That You Are Correct?
- Connect With Nature, See Its Beauty, and Improve Your Well-Being, Research Shows
- Rather Than Love, Than Money, Than Fame, Give Me Truth (Quote)
- The Sounds of Nature Reduce Stress
- What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
- Study: Dishonesty May Actually Lead to Greater Creativity
- A Stage Model of How our Mind and Body Respond to Traumatic Stress
- Do You Pick the Dead Man’s Solution? Focus on What You Want to Be Instead of What You Don’t Want to Be
- The Best Way to Learn is From Experience, But Experience Itself is Not Enough
- 8 Principles to Improve Memory
- 15 Cognitive Biases that Prevent Us From Thinking Rationally
- Who Win The Promiscuity Battle — Men or Women?
- 6 Handpicked Photos that Illustrate the Development of Human Beings
- Do You Have a Fixed or a Growth Mindset? Begin to Focus on Growth and Achieve Success
- The Beauty of Sleep (Quote)
- The Brain’s Reward System: Is Dopamine the Only ‘Feel Good’ Chemical?
- Do Males and Females Really Communicate in Different Ways?
- When People Lack a Sense of Control in Their Environment, They Make It Up in Their Heads
- Your Self-Control Decreases Throughout the Day, Study Shows
- Psychological Resilience: The Ability to Turn Stressful Life Events Into Personal Growth
- 6 Unfortunate Ways Traffic Noise Affects People (Research Findings)
- Learned Helplessness is “Just” a Way of Thinking
- 4 Ways to Develop Self-Efficacy Beliefs
- Are You In Control? Feelings of Personal Control Are Essential for Mental Health
- 8 Scientific Facts About Self-Control
- Study: Sleep Disturbances Predict the Course of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders
- The Impact Bias: Why We Overestimate the Emotional Impact of Future Events
- Consider This Before You Clean Up Your Room (Messy Rooms Encourage Creativity)
- Your Childhood Environment Predicts Whether You Spend or Save in Times of Economic Scarcity
- Soda Consumption May Cause Behavioural Problems in Children
- How the Brain Responds to Traumatic Events that Later Become Flashbacks
- Do Women Beat Men in Multitasking?
- Study: Narcissists Desire to be Liked by Others, Especially by People With Higher Status
- How to Spot a Narcissist
- Anxiety Runs in Families: How Parenting Promotes Anxiety
- Deal With Anxiety by Reframing How You Think About Negative or Anxious Emotions and Situations
- Self-Efficacy is Related to Motivation and Performance, Research Shows
- Rituals Restore Feelings of Control
- Humor Connects People: The Laughing and Liking Principle
- We Invest So Much Time In Mind Wandering, But How Does It Help Us?
- 5 Facts About Fear Appeals
- You May Empathize More With Attractive Others, Study Shows
- Study: Feelings of Flow May Lead to Risk-Taking Behavior
- Hindsight Bias: Why We View Events as More Predictable Than They Really Are
- Why People Fail to Make Accurate Predictions About Probability
- Study: People With Self-Discipline Are Happier
- The 5 Most Popular Psychology Articles This Month (Aug’13)
- Time Flies? Life Appears to Speed Up As People Get Older
- Are We More Connected to our Family and Friends? Yes, Brain Study Shows
- Study: Smiling Makes You More Attractive
- 5 Reasons Why People Reject Technology
- Posting Facebook Status Updates Fosters a Sense of Connectedness and Reduces Loneliness
- Sleep is Important for Memory and Learning Potential, Study Shows
- Are You Wise? Here is a 5 Factor Checklist Based on Research
- Mnemonic Devices: The Art of Improving Memory
- The Dynamics of Materialism and Loneliness
- Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Personalities: Fact or Fiction?
- Psychology Shows How We Recognize Faces
- How We Perceive Depth (Monucular and Binocular Depth Cues)
- How The Brain Makes Sense of Sensory Stimuli: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
- What You Didn’t Know About Your Boss: Possession of Power Changes How the Brain Responds to Others
- The Placebo Effect: How Expectations Produce Real Effects
- The Zeigarnik Effect: The Tendency to Complete Things That Were Left Incomplete
- Study: People Who Help Others May Live Longer Compared to People Who Don’t
- 4 Assumptions About the Mean Value in Statistics
- The Certainty Effect: Why We Fail at Calculating Probabilities
- From Where Do We Get Our Morality? From Religion or Intuition?
- Ways to Deal With Difficulties: Problem-Focused and Emotion-Focused Coping
- Study: Attitudes About Celebrities Are Fairly Stable Over Time
- How Materialistic Aims Influence Psychological Well-Being
- Rituals Make Food More Tasty and Decrease Consumption
- Multitasking Reduces Taste Perception and Increases Food Consumption
- Therapist’s Burnout: A Consequence of Severe Mental and Emotional Fatigue
- 3 Ways to Prevent that the Moods of Others Affect You Negatively
- Study: Impulsive Traits Specific to Psychopathy Predict Lifetime Patterns of Violence
- Manual Experience With an Object Shapes Its Meaning
- How Brand Designs Influence Consumer Choices
- Optimism Bias: Why We Assume Brighter Tomorrows
- 3 Ways to Overcome Boredom
- Why We Earn Beyond Needs at the Cost of Happiness
- Medium Maximization: The Tendency to Focus on Immediate Outcomes
- Psychological Myopia: The Tendency to Think Short-Sightedly
- How Colors Affect Consumer Behavior (Empirical Studies)
- Meaning in Life Can Be Manipulated by Cognitive Scientists
- Extreme Political Attitudes are Difficult to Change for 5 Reasons
- Can Evolution Explain Why Women Become Attracted by Some Men Over Others?
- What Types of People Do Extreme Sports?
- Study: Feel Bad to Feel Great (Relief Boosts Positive Emotions)
- Can Evolution Explain Gender Differences in Jealousy?
- Instincts Might Explain Why People Hold Prejudices
- The Temporal Doppler Effect: Why the Future Feels so Close and the Past so Distant
- What is the Evidence for Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
- The Focusing-Effect: Why We End Up Making the Wrong Decisions
- 10 Factors that Influence Help-Seeking Behaviors
- A Study of 65,000 Participants Shows How People are Attachted to Their Partners
- How Attachment Styles Affect Relationships
- Stress Scores for Different Life Events (The Social Readjustment Rating Scale)
- The Halo Effect: Why We Judge People From First Hand Impressions
- Early Signs of Extraordinary Abilities Predict Success
- Study: Your Self-Concept Influences Your Product Choices
- Hurting You Hurts Me Too: The Psychological Costs of Hurting Someone
- An Exploration of the Differences Between Early Birds and Night Owls
- How Pets Influence our Health and Well-Being (Studies)
- Study: Urban Green Spaces Lower People’s Frustration and Stress
- Do We Have Free Will? People Believe They Have More Free Will Than Others
- Actor-Observer Bias: Why We Blame Other People Instead of Ourselves
- Psychological Medicine: Integrating Psychological Knowledge Into Medical Assessment
- How Your Mood Influences Your Cognitive Functioning
- The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress
- Does True Altruism Exist?
- How People Pick Up Anxiety Through Classical Conditioning
- The Endowment Effect: Why We Overrate the Value of Stuff
- Achieve Happiness Through the Experience of Flow
- The Impact of Serotonin on Social Behaviors
- Predictors of Internet Addiction (Loneliness, Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction)
- Object Attachment and Risk Perception Predicts Cell Phone Use While Driving
- Why Do People Shop Impulsively?
- Do You Become Easily Overwhelmed? Perhaps You Are a Highly Sensitive Person
- Study: Happy People are More Likely to Steal than People With Neutral Emotions
- A Life Course Metaphor (Quote)
- The Fine Distinction Between Personality Disorders and Clinical Syndromes (DSM-IV)
- Gender Differences in the Experience of Emotions
- Gender-Typed Behaviors are Linked to Depressive Symptoms, Low Self-Esteem, and Poor Friendship Quality in Boys
- The Power of a Social Purpose (Judgmental Bias)
- Does the Apple Fall Far From the Tree? Parent-Child Similarities in Attitudes
- The Effects of Glutamate in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
- Self-Harm as a Means of Coping With Emotional Distress
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder: An Obsession With Beauty
- How Tryptophan Affects the Mind
- 4 Elementary Ways of Relating to Others
- The Ripple Effect (Emotional Contagion in Groups)
- Do What You Love and Stay Motivated (Self-Determination Theory)
- Can Personality Explain Why Some People Use Social Network Sites More Than Others?
- What Are The Main Functions of the Frontal and Temporal Lobes?
- A Look Into Personality and The Big Five Personality Traits
- Were Our Ancestors Depressed?
- How Money Affects the Brain’s Reward System (Why Money is Addictive)
- Why Are Some People More Social Than Others? The Difference Between Introverts and Extraverts
- What is the Self and How is it Formed? 3 Very Different Theories Try to Explain it
- What is an Identity Crisis?
- A Brief Overview of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- The Rationale for Adopting an Infant as Early as Possible: Considering Attachment Theory
- Rural-Urban Variations in Mental Illness
- 8 Psychological Mechanisms that Enable People to Hurt Others (The Psychology of Evilness)
- The Psychometric Quality of a Psychological Test
