Your former classmate just got promoted. Someone from college is engaged. Another person has moved abroad for postgraduate studies, and a fourth has somehow bought a house before learning how to cook anything beyond Maggi. Meanwhile, you are trying to decide whether your current career plan is a plan or simply a series of increasingly […]
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At 1:43 a.m., you have applied for seventeen jobs, rewritten your CV for the fourth time, and refreshed your inbox so often Gmail should be paying you rent. One listing asks for three years of experience, six software skills, and the emotional resilience of a Himalayan monk. You apply anyway. You feel anxious, so you
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Have you ever opened Instagram to check one notification and emerged 47 minutes later knowing the relationship status of a stranger’s cousin? Or said something unnecessarily rude during an argument and immediately wondered, “Why did I do that?” Congratulations. You have encountered one of psychology’s most uncomfortable questions: how much control do we actually have
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You watched one video about how everyone your age is secretly falling behind in life. By dinner, your feed has presented 19 struggling twenty-somethings, three productivity gurus who wake up at 4 a.m., and a man explaining why your morning routine is the reason you are unsuccessful. Excellent. You wanted entertainment. You have acquired an
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The Internet Promised Us the World. We Got a Very Opinionated Neighbourhood. Your social media algorithm has watched you like one video about toxic relationships, three videos about narcissists, and a woman explaining why your attachment style is apparently ruining your life. It has now decided you are a relationship expert in crisis. Your next
Did you get your 10,000 steps today? Excellent! Your smartwatch is proud of you. But your brain might have a reason to celebrate too, because surprisingly its beneficial for your mind. You might be wondering how does walking improve mental health? Let me tell you. Oh, wait. I just assumed you got your 10K steps.
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Imagine investigating fear by activating a carefully selected group of brain cells with a flash of light. Not by asking someone how afraid they feel or observing their behaviour, but by directly changing the activity of particular neurons and watching what happens. It sounds like science fiction, but researchers have been doing versions of this
“You don’t look depressed.” “But you have nothing to worry about.” “Everyone feels anxious sometimes.” Perhaps you’ve heard these words. Perhaps you’ve said them to someone else, hoping to make them feel better. Either way, they reveal something important: we often try to understand another person’s mental health through what we think it should look
Psychological Reactance: Why Being Told “Don’t” Makes You Want It Even More Picture this. Someone walks into the room and casually says, “Whatever you do… don’t press that button.” You weren’t even looking at the button before. Now it’s the only thing you can think about. Or maybe you’ve heard someone say, “You can’t date
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How Social Media Shapes Your Beliefs: The Hidden Psychology of Your Feed Imagine opening your social media app. The first post agrees with you. The second post agrees with you. The third one? Still agrees with you. You scroll for another ten minutes. Everyone seems to share your opinion. Same jokes. Same politics. Same health
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