How Medical Marijuana Works on the Brain to Reduce Pain
Medical marijuana is becoming increasingly popular as a means of treating pain in patients with chronic conditions. Living with pain can be incredibly detrimental to a patient’s quality of life and...
View ArticleWhat Is Homesickness?
Homesickness, the distress or anxiety caused by being separated from home, affects most people over the course of a lifetime. Homesickness can be caused by a wide variety of situations. Sleepovers,...
View ArticleHow ‘Faces’ Impact Your Mood
Want to improve your mood every day and make sure you wake up on the right side of bed every time you hear your alarm? The solution may be to use ‘faces’ in order to make yourself feel cheerful and to...
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How Coffee Can Help You to Get the Perfect Nap
Most of us consider coffee and caffeine in general to be the absolute worst thing for getting to sleep and having a full and restful night. This is good advice for the most part but actually there is...
View ArticleCognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
It is very important not to underestimate just how disruptive and destructive insomnia can be. Insomnia prevents you from being able to get to sleep easily but it goes beyond that as this in itself...
View ArticleHow to Get People to Cooperate Through an Understanding of Psychology
There are many situations in life where we want people to cooperate and play ball but unfortunately it seems that it is human nature to be difficult. People just don’t like doing as they’re told and so...
View ArticleWhy Do We Cry When We’re Happy?
Mostly we associate crying with negative emotions. Most often, people will cry because they’re sad or injured and this acts as a social signal that that person is in distress as well as a potential...
View ArticleHow Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helped Me to Use Public Urinals
In many articles, I have recommended using cognitive behavioral therapy as a way to address a range of mental health problems. I recommend this form of therapy/self-help in part because – after...
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What Are Neurotransmitters?
When reading about psychology it can often be a challenge to understand what all the different terms mean. It can seem like a lot of jargon at times and this can make it difficult to unravel what...
View ArticleEffects of Novelty and Danger on the Brain – The Best Type of ‘Natural High’
All of us want to feel more alive and invigorated and everyone feels great when they’re completely focused on what’s happening around them and they’re entirely ‘in the moment’. This kind of feeling...
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Psychology You Can Actually Use
Tell someone that you study/are interested in psychology and one of the responses you’ll get most often is ‘ooh, does that mean you can read my mind?’. This will maybe get a smile the first time but it...
View ArticleWhat Your Online Avatar Says About You
One of the best parts of setting up a new games console these days is choosing your avatar. This is an opportunity to pick yourself an identity and to become anyone you want to be. At the same time it...
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How to Introduce Your Parents to Your Friends
Introducing your parents to your friends for the first time can be an awkward and nerve-wracking experience. Introducing any new people for the first time can feel awkward enough but in this situation...
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What Is Health Psychology?
The term ‘health psychology’ is something that often gets misunderstood. Isn’t all psychology to do with mental health? How is this type of psychology any different? The distinction with health...
View ArticleWhy Psychologists Disagree and How to Make Head and Tail of Conflicting Advice
One of the first things that you learn when you start studying psychology is that we don’t really know anything for sure. There are many big mysteries in psychology, from the nature of consciousness to...
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Seven Things to Think About Before Moving in With Your Partner
Deciding to share a house with your partner is one of the biggest decisions you will make in your relationship, demonstrating to your other half your commitment to both them and your life together. It...
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Meeting the Parents for the First Time
Meeting your partner’s parents for the first time can be a very nerve-wracking experience. Meeting new people is often awkward at the best of times without the added significance of this moment...
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How to Find Potential Friends
Feeling lonely is one of the worst experiences that we face as adults but is all too common. If you’re in a new city, you’ve just ended a relationship or you’ve changed jobs recently, you can find...
View ArticlePsychological Treatment for Premature Ejaculation
Premature ejaculation is something that many men are concerned about, though it’s actually unlikely in most cases that they are suffering from the clinical definition of premature ejaculation. While...
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Pattern Recognition and Your Brain
Pattern recognition is the ability of the human brain – as well as animal brains – to identify and act upon patterns. This is one of the most fundamental cognitive skills we possess and has...
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