psychology Archives

Dopamine Dressing: How Colourful Clothing Can Help Your Gloomy Winter Mood

Life

1 month ago

Dopamine Dressing: How Colourful Clothing Can Help Your Gloomy Winter Mood

Stephanie Nuzzo and Ky Stewart

How to Manage an Emotional Breakdown at Work

Health

2 months ago

How to Manage an Emotional Breakdown at Work

How to Stop a Panic Attack With Frozen Meat

Communicate

2 months ago

How to Stop a Panic Attack With Frozen Meat

Laura Wheatman Hill

Why You Shouldn’t Call Your Partner ‘Needy’

Health

2 months ago

Why You Shouldn’t Call Your Partner ‘Needy’

Samantha Nazzi

Here’s a Handful of Manifesting Tips and Techniques Designed to Help You Actualise Your Goals

Life

2 months ago

Here’s a Handful of Manifesting Tips and Techniques Designed to Help You Actualise Your Goals

What Is a ‘Likability Quotient’ (and How Can You Increase Yours)?

Health

2 months ago

What Is a ‘Likability Quotient’ (and How Can You Increase Yours)?

Your Nervous System Is to Blame for How You Argue With Your Partner

Health

2 months ago

Your Nervous System Is to Blame for How You Argue With Your Partner

What to Do If You Think Your Partner Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Health

2 months ago

What to Do If You Think Your Partner Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Samantha Nazzi

Health

2 months ago

Why You Should Schedule Your Stress

Health

2 months ago

Stop Enabling Your Dog’s Bad Behaviour

The One Question You Should Ask Yourself Before Dumping Someone

Life

3 months ago

The One Question You Should Ask Yourself Before Dumping Someone

Learn to Surrender With a Meditation Designed for Control Freaks

Health

3 months ago

Learn to Surrender With a Meditation Designed for Control Freaks

How ‘Nudge Theory’ Can Help You (and Others) Make Better Choices

Health

3 months ago

How ‘Nudge Theory’ Can Help You (and Others) Make Better Choices

Yes, Your Memory Has Probably Gotten Worse Recently – Here’s Why You Don’t Need to Panic

Health

3 months ago

Yes, Your Memory Has Probably Gotten Worse Recently – Here’s Why You Don’t Need to Panic

What to Do When a Friendship Is Going Down the Toilet

Communicate

3 months ago

What to Do When a Friendship Is Going Down the Toilet

Beverley Fehr

Life

3 months ago

How to Create More Luck in Your Life, According to Science

Communicate

3 months ago

How to Date Someone Who Has Anxiety

Things Only Arseholes Say After a Celebrity Death

Health

3 months ago

Things Only Arseholes Say After a Celebrity Death

Why Do So Many People Watch Porn at Work? A Psychologist Explains

Life

3 months ago

Why Do So Many People Watch Porn at Work? A Psychologist Explains

Lifehackeraustralia

How to Know If You Have a Fear of Abandonment (and What to Do About It)

Health

3 months ago

How to Know If You Have a Fear of Abandonment (and What to Do About It)

Wondering ‘Did I Say Something Stupid Last Night?’ You May Be Experiencing Hangxiety

Health

3 months ago

Wondering ‘Did I Say Something Stupid Last Night?’ You May Be Experiencing Hangxiety

How to Recognise the Signs of Parental Burnout (and What to Do About It)

Health

3 months ago

How to Recognise the Signs of Parental Burnout (and What to Do About It)

Research Shows Straight Women Feel Pressure to Prove They’re ‘Not Intimidating’ While Dating, Because God Forbid Men Work Hard for Anything

Communicate

3 months ago

Research Shows Straight Women Feel Pressure to Prove They’re ‘Not Intimidating’ While Dating, Because God Forbid Men Work Hard for Anything

Lisa Portolan, Western Sydney University

We Need to Move Past Hurtful Labels Like ‘Psycho’ or ‘Schizo’, Here Are Some Alternative Clinical Terms to Use

Health

3 months ago

We Need to Move Past Hurtful Labels Like ‘Psycho’ or ‘Schizo’, Here Are Some Alternative Clinical Terms to Use

Andrea Polari and Suzie Lavoie

Health

3 months ago

How to Set Boundaries With Your Mum

How to Deal With Traumatising News Images While Still Staying Informed

Communicate

3 months ago

How to Deal With Traumatising News Images While Still Staying Informed

Beth Skwarecki

These Habits Are Making You More Irritable

Health

4 months ago

These Habits Are Making You More Irritable

The ‘Four Horsemen’ That Can Predict Whether You’ll Get Divorced

Health

4 months ago

The ‘Four Horsemen’ That Can Predict Whether You’ll Get Divorced

Why Buying a Property Is Just Like Dating (Aside From the Fact You Get Screwed)

Communicate

4 months ago

Why Buying a Property Is Just Like Dating (Aside From the Fact You Get Screwed)

No, Not Everything Happens for a Reason: How Well-Meaning Platitudes Keep You Feeling Stuck

Communicate

4 months ago

No, Not Everything Happens for a Reason: How Well-Meaning Platitudes Keep You Feeling Stuck

Mark Starmach

Health

4 months ago

You Can Control Yourself Better

The True-Tale Signs You’re in a Toxic Relationship

Life

4 months ago

The True-Tale Signs You’re in a Toxic Relationship

How Histrionic Personality Disorder Differs From Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Health

4 months ago

How Histrionic Personality Disorder Differs From Narcissistic Personality Disorder

8 Ways to Exude More Confidence (Even When You’re Not Feeling It)

Health

4 months ago

8 Ways to Exude More Confidence (Even When You’re Not Feeling It)

How to Actually Stay Calm During an Argument

Health

4 months ago

How to Actually Stay Calm During an Argument

7 of the Most Common Irrational Fears (and 7 Things We Should Be Scared of Instead)

Health

4 months ago

7 of the Most Common Irrational Fears (and 7 Things We Should Be Scared of Instead)

Stephen Johnson

How Shops Use Psychology to Influence Your Buying Decisions

Life

4 months ago

How Shops Use Psychology to Influence Your Buying Decisions

Cathrine Jansson-Boyd

How to Save Your Career After Screwing Up at Work

Health

4 months ago

How to Save Your Career After Screwing Up at Work

Health

4 months ago

5 Unexpected Health Benefits of Singing

Melissa Forbes

10 Sociological Studies That Prove Humans Are the Worst (and How We Can Be Better)

Health

5 months ago

10 Sociological Studies That Prove Humans Are the Worst (and How We Can Be Better)

Stephen Johnson

Trying to Cut Back on Alcohol? Here’s What Works

Health

5 months ago

Trying to Cut Back on Alcohol? Here’s What Works

Nicole Lee

How I Accidentally Cured My Fear of Flying With a Video Game

Health

5 months ago

How I Accidentally Cured My Fear of Flying With a Video Game

Stephen Johnson

Communicate

5 months ago

How to Stop Being Such a Control Freak

What Is ‘Dopamine Dressing,’ and Can It Really Make You Happier?

Health

5 months ago

What Is ‘Dopamine Dressing,’ and Can It Really Make You Happier?

Why Do People Behave So Badly on Dating Apps?

Life

5 months ago

Why Do People Behave So Badly on Dating Apps?

Martin Graff, University of South Wales

Men Think They’re Brighter Than They Are and Women Underestimate Their IQ. Why?

Life

5 months ago

Men Think They’re Brighter Than They Are and Women Underestimate Their IQ. Why?

David Reilly, Griffith University

The Difference Between Envy and Jealousy

Life

5 months ago

The Difference Between Envy and Jealousy

Beth Skwarecki

What’s Behind the Obsession Over Whether Elizabeth Holmes Intentionally Lowered Her Voice?

Life

6 months ago

What’s Behind the Obsession Over Whether Elizabeth Holmes Intentionally Lowered Her Voice?

Kathryn Cunningham, University of Tennessee

Countries That Focus the Most on Happiness End up Making People Feel Worse, Research Finds

Life

6 months ago

Countries That Focus the Most on Happiness End up Making People Feel Worse, Research Finds

Brock Bastian, The University of Melbourne and Egon Dejonckheere, KU Leuven

Do We Really ‘Lose Our Filter’ as We Age?

Life

6 months ago

Do We Really ‘Lose Our Filter’ as We Age?

Stephanie Wong, Hannah Keage

Health

6 months ago

Why You Need Boredom Time Every Week

Health

6 months ago

How to Go to Sleep Like Royalty

You’re Probably Using These Psychological Terms Wrong on Social Media

Communicate

6 months ago

You’re Probably Using These Psychological Terms Wrong on Social Media

Use These 9 Phrases to Sound More Emotionally Intelligent

Life

6 months ago

Use These 9 Phrases to Sound More Emotionally Intelligent

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Life

6 months ago

How to Recover From a Breakup

5 Signs You’re Dating a Narcissist, According to a Psychologist

Life

6 months ago

5 Signs You’re Dating a Narcissist, According to a Psychologist

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3 Things Every Healthy Relationship Should Have, According to a Counsellor

Life

6 months ago

3 Things Every Healthy Relationship Should Have, According to a Counsellor

How Long Do You Need to Exercise to Get a Mood Boost?

Health

6 months ago

How Long Do You Need to Exercise to Get a Mood Boost?

These Are Better Ways to Show Affection, Based on Your Partner’s Love Language

Health

6 months ago

These Are Better Ways to Show Affection, Based on Your Partner’s Love Language

How ‘Negative Visualisation’ Can Make You More Positive

Health

7 months ago

How ‘Negative Visualisation’ Can Make You More Positive

What Are the ‘Sunday Scaries,’ and How Can You Beat Them?

Communicate

7 months ago

What Are the ‘Sunday Scaries,’ and How Can You Beat Them?

Jeff Somers

Health

7 months ago

How to Spot a ‘Dark Empath’

Why Do We Find It Hard to Make Friends as Adults?

Life

7 months ago

Why Do We Find It Hard to Make Friends as Adults?

Anastasia Hronis, University of Technology Sydney

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Health

7 months ago

We Need to Chat: Preparing for the Mental Health Impact of Testing Positive for COVID

Khushaal Vyas

This Is Why You’re So Tired So Early in the Year

Home

7 months ago

This Is Why You’re So Tired So Early in the Year

Ask for the Menu, and Other Ways to Make Your Next Hospital Stay More Tolerable

Health

7 months ago

Ask for the Menu, and Other Ways to Make Your Next Hospital Stay More Tolerable

Jeff Somers

How to Tell When You’re Struggling With Repressed Anger

Health

7 months ago

How to Tell When You’re Struggling With Repressed Anger

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda: How to Better Manage Feelings of Regret

Life

7 months ago

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda: How to Better Manage Feelings of Regret

J. Kim Penberthy, University of Virginia

How ‘Gamification’ of Everything Is Manipulating You (and How to Recognise It)

Communicate

7 months ago

How ‘Gamification’ of Everything Is Manipulating You (and How to Recognise It)

Stephen Johnson

Health

7 months ago

Things You Should Never Say to Someone Struggling with Depression

How to Stop Being so Damn Self-Deprecating

Health

7 months ago

How to Stop Being so Damn Self-Deprecating

Why You Need Instant Gratification, According to Science

Productivity

7 months ago

Why You Need Instant Gratification, According to Science

Why You Should Think of Relaxing As a Skill, Not a Reward

Health

7 months ago

Why You Should Think of Relaxing As a Skill, Not a Reward

Can You Really Tell the Difference Between 4K and 8K?

Life

8 months ago

Can You Really Tell the Difference Between 4K and 8K?

Daniel Kolitz

Communicate

8 months ago

How to Beat the Post-Holiday Blues

When It Helps to Talk About Your Grief (and When It Doesn’t)

Health

8 months ago

When It Helps to Talk About Your Grief (and When It Doesn’t)

Why Distracting Yourself Is Better Than ‘Positive Thinking’

Communicate

8 months ago

Why Distracting Yourself Is Better Than ‘Positive Thinking’

The Difference Between Normal and Maladaptive Daydreaming

Communicate

8 months ago

The Difference Between Normal and Maladaptive Daydreaming

Emily Long

Why You Should ‘Pre-Cry’ Before Your Next Emotional Event

Health

8 months ago

Why You Should ‘Pre-Cry’ Before Your Next Emotional Event

Don’t Overlook These Relationship Green Flags

Health

9 months ago

Don’t Overlook These Relationship Green Flags

Remember This: Everyday Memory Lapses May Actually Be a Good Sign

Health

9 months ago

Remember This: Everyday Memory Lapses May Actually Be a Good Sign

Robert Jacobs, University of Rochester

How to (Finally) Actually Move on From a Relationship

Health

9 months ago

How to (Finally) Actually Move on From a Relationship

Why Your Friends Are Probably More Popular, Richer, and More Attractive Than You

Health

9 months ago

Why Your Friends Are Probably More Popular, Richer, and More Attractive Than You

Stephen Johnson

Why Do Some People Find It Harder To Be Happy?

Health

9 months ago

Why Do Some People Find It Harder To Be Happy?

Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

Do These Things When You’re so Irritated You’re About to Snap

Communicate

9 months ago

Do These Things When You’re so Irritated You’re About to Snap

6 Signs That You’re Addicted to Stress, and How to Break the Habit

Health

9 months ago

6 Signs That You’re Addicted to Stress, and How to Break the Habit

How to Feel Your Feelings (and Why You Should)

Health

9 months ago

How to Feel Your Feelings (and Why You Should)

The Psychology Behind Our Love for Sad Songs and Adele

Entertainment

9 months ago

The Psychology Behind Our Love for Sad Songs and Adele

Simon McCarthy-Jones, Trinity College Dublin

How to Tell Whether Your Angry Teenager Is Actually Depressed

Health

9 months ago

How to Tell Whether Your Angry Teenager Is Actually Depressed

‘Toxic Positivity’: What Is It and How Does It Sabotage Your Happiness?

Life

10 months ago

‘Toxic Positivity’: What Is It and How Does It Sabotage Your Happiness?

Brock Bastian, The University of Melbourne and Ashley Humphrey, Federation University Australia

How to Negotiate With Your Kid, According to a Negotiation Expert

Health

10 months ago

How to Negotiate With Your Kid, According to a Negotiation Expert

What Is ‘Weaponised Incompetence’ and Is It Ruining Your Relationship?

Life

10 months ago

What Is ‘Weaponised Incompetence’ and Is It Ruining Your Relationship?

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Health

10 months ago

How to Talk About Mental Health, From Someone Who’s Lived Through It

Mike Davis

9 of the Best Psychology Podcasts to Help You Figure Out What the Fuck

Health

10 months ago

9 of the Best Psychology Podcasts to Help You Figure Out What the Fuck

The Difference Between a Psychologist and Psychiatrist (and Why It Matters)

Health

10 months ago

The Difference Between a Psychologist and Psychiatrist (and Why It Matters)

How to Use Transitional Objects as a Way to Process Grief

Health

10 months ago

How to Use Transitional Objects as a Way to Process Grief

How to Recover From Being Raised by a Narcissist

Life

10 months ago

How to Recover From Being Raised by a Narcissist

Why Do We Get So Attached to Ordinary Items?

Life

11 months ago

Why Do We Get So Attached to Ordinary Items?

Jacqueline Rifkin, University of Missouri-Kansas City

There’s Such a Thing as ‘Temporary’ Narcissism (and How to Recognise It)

Health

11 months ago

There’s Such a Thing as ‘Temporary’ Narcissism (and How to Recognise It)