General Psychology

We often think of different mental health conditions as totally independent from each other. Depression is separate from anxiety is separate from bipolar disorder, and so on: they have different names, different ...
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How we remember things is partly down to the culture we’re from and the language we speak. Some new evidence for that comes from a recent study published in the journal Cognition ...
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When asked "how would you draw fear?" a 12-year-old sketches a repetitive pattern of dots. That might seem like an odd choice, but it makes sense when you consider that the girl ...
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Probably the most effective thing people can do to improve their mental health is, in fact, to seek help from mental health professionals. But many people who stand to gain a lot ...
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People with autism often have "special interests" – topics or activities that they are highly interested in, even obsessive about. These interests can take many forms, but the common theme is the ...
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Most mental health conditions are treated after they appear. Given how incomplete our understanding of the brain is, we can only hope that one day we’ll be able to prevent psychiatric disorders ...
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"That’s not fair," said every child ever, at one point or another. We all know that children can have firm convictions about what’s fair and what’s not, but it turns out that ...
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What should you do this weekend – go blow some hard-earned money, or go walk around by some trees? One is certainly cheaper than the other. A recent study titled Shopping Versus ...
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I’ve got some good and bad news for all the anxious people out there. As an anxious person myself, I know that anxious people will naturally want to know the bad news ...
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Self-compassion is an important predictor of mental health. As I’ve written about before, people with more self-compassion are less likely to experience depression, less likely to ruminate on negative social experiences, and ...
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