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Twelve Things that Sigmund Freud Got Right

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The Education Gender Gap: APA Task Force looks at How to Help Boys Succeed in School

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Media Literacy and Modern Technology

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Being a Perfectionist Doesn’t Have to be a Negative

Being a perfectionist gets a bad rap. It is associated with negative outcomes, anxiety and stress ...
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Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Growth Mindset, Imposter Syndrome, Perfectionism, Performance Psychology, Positive Psychology, Self-Care

Stoic Philosophers – The First Cognitive Behavioral Therapists

When we think of philosophers, names like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle often come to mind. For ...
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Clinical Psychology, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Stoic Philosophy, Well-Being

Spotlight on Self-Care

Self-care is the process of reducing stress and ill-being and improving health and well-being. It is ...
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Positive Psychology, Resilience, Self-Care

Spotlight on Grit

Albert Einstein once said, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with ...
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Grit, Performance Psychology, Positive Psychology

SOCIAL MEDIA - GOOD OR EVIL?

Is Social Media Reflecting Our Pathology or Adding to It?

Social Media and Mental Health Social media has become an open forum for discussing and sharing ...
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Social Media Use is Related to Both Ill-Being and Well-Being

Social media use and mental health seems to have a love/hate relationship. Brailovskaia and Margraf (2016) ...
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Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Depression, Media Psychology & Technology, ,

Social Media and Self-Esteem

A recent article published in Science Direct looked at the association between social media use and ...
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Developmental Psychology, Media Psychology & Technology, Positive Psychology, , , Well-Being

Therapy Can Be as Effective Online as In Person

From Zoom happy hours to remote learning, one thing most of us have discovered this year ...
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Clinical Psychology, Media Psychology & Technology, Teletherapy, Treatment

COVID AND ITS LONG TERM IMPACT

How to Enforce Social Distancing? Your Answer Might Depend on Who’s Breaking the Rules

An ethical question raised by the pandemic is what to do about people who don’t take ...
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Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology

How to Stop Touching Your Face

Do you find your hand regularly creeping up toward your head, despite recent advice from public ...
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Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology

Resources and Studies on the Psychological Impact of Coronavirus

It seems like one can’t check the headlines these days without some disconcerting bit of news ...
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Clinical Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology, Stress & Trauma

COVID-19 Might Be Changing People’s Intentions of Becoming Parents

The new way of life brought about by the current pandemic has many people rethinking their ...
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Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology, Parenting,

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICS

Attitudes to Inequality May Have Genetic Underpinning

It’s clear that we live in an unequal society, with some groups of people having more ...
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What’s the Role of Politics in Therapy?

Therapy is a place where anything can come up. The old adage about discussing politics and ...
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Clinical Psychology, Politics, Treatment

People Probably Agree With You Less Than You Think

If there’s one thing people never lack, it’s biases in how we think. One of these ...
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Cognitive Psychology, Politics, Relationships,

People Care More About Climate Change After Experiencing a Hurricane

Climate change is an interesting psychological case study. It’s a big, scientifically unambiguous problem, but we’re ...
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Behavioral Psychology, Climate Change, Politics, Stress & Trauma

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