Categoria: International
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WRITE IT OUT: JOURNALING AS A TOOL FOR EMOTIONAL REGULATION
Reading time: 6 minutes In a world that never slows down, keeping our emotions in check isn’t always easy. However, what if there was a simple yet scientifically proven method to help us regain control over our emotions and clear mental clutter? Enter journaling, a practice that has been shown to improve emotional balance and…
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SCAPEGOAT CHILD
Reading time: 5 minutes Dysfunctional families are marked by unhealthy dynamics that influence the emotional, through this, psychological, and behavioral development of children, often shaping their self-perception, relationships, and coping mechanisms throughout life. During childhood, those children often take on some common roles, which influence their relationships with both parents and siblings. One of them…
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Availability heuristic: how our brains trick us into misjudging danger
Reading time: 4 minutes What do you think is more dangerous flying in an airplane or driving a car? Most people, recalling dramatic plane crashes from the news, would say flying. However, statistics show that car accidents cause far more deaths than plane crashes. When we need to quickly assess the risk or urgently make…
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The Flynn Effect: Rising IQ Scores and What They Mean for Society
Reading time: 5 minutes For decades, psychologists have observed a fascinating trend: IQ scores have been steadily increasing across generations. This phenomenon, known as the Flynn Effect, was named after James R. Flynn, a researcher who extensively studied and popularized it. While the rise in intelligence test scores has been widely documented, the reasons behind…
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Parental Phubbing
Reading time: 5 minutes Introduction: Phubbing is a recent phenomenon which refers to individuals ignoring others in their presence because they are too preoccupied with their mobile phone. Parental phubbing is when this occurs in parents towards their children, ignoring them by being on their phone instead of interacting. This may also involve being distracted…
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Doomscrolling – Addiction To Bad News and Its Negative Consequences on Health
Reading time: 5 minutes In a world dominated by the media, news—especially negative news—is unavoidable and omnipresent in our everyday lives. Social media, television, and radio constantly provide fresh updates on political, economic, criminal, or war-related events from all over the world, minute by minute. This uninterrupted flow of news has dramatically changed society’s knowledge…
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Psychodrama as a Psychotherapeutic Approach
Reading time: 5 minutes The methods of psychodrama, and group psychotherapy were developed and described in the 1930s by the Romanian-American psychologist and psychiatrist Jacob Levy Moreno. Psychodrama – psyche (soul) + drama (action) – is a method of group psychotherapy that consists in participants acting out scenes from their lives, in which conflict situations…
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Love, AI, and the Illusion of Choice: A Deep Dive into Foe
Reading time: 9 minutes When do the ends justify the means? Are the final solutions, argued to serve a prospective welfare of the society, worth interfering into individuals’ personal lives and subjecting them to distress, and enormous emotional pressure? In a psychological sci-fi thriller called “Foe” (starring irish actors Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal) the…
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The power of perception: How your mind shapes your body
Reading time: 4 minutes Scientists have been fascinated by the connection between mind and body for a long time. Although once thought to be independent, current research start to suggest that our thoughts, beliefs, and expectations can directly impact physical health in many different ways. Everything from stress affecting the immune system to optimism influencing…
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Familiar Faces, Foreign Emotions: Understanding the Capgras Syndrome Paradox
Reading time: 4 minutes Imagine waking up one day convinced that your loved one is not who they claim to be, but an imposter perfectly mirroring their appearance. People with such experiences have a rare neurological disorder called Capgras Syndrome (CS), which is characterized by the persistent belief that someone close to them—typically, one’s spouse,…
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