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3 Steps to De-Catastrophize Your Anxious Thoughts
De-escalating your "big feelings" begins with taking three small steps.
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Top 10 Issues to Consider for Polyamorous Parents
Many families face issues around blending multiple adults who care for children. The way they manage these top 10 concerns can make or break the blended family.
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Why We Delay Important Decisions
Why do we put off important decisions? It may have more to do with avoiding discomfort than managing our time.
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A Famous Case of Shared Eyewitness 'Memory'
Eyewitness accounts, when combined with the human proclivity for storytelling, can result in amazing accounts of things that never happened.
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Have You Ever Had Sex That Felt Scary?
Before sexual assault, there's often sex that feels scary. Who experiences scary sex? Why? And what can be done to make sex less scary?
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How to Meditate to Help Reduce Shame
Meditation can help to reduce shame surrounding fetishes. Here's how.
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Using AI to Avoid Thinking Harms Students
When students face difficulty in understanding an assignment, they should ask for hints from their instructors or an AI, rather than for answers.
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Probing the Depths of a Drive-by
Personal Perspective: One of the saddest definitions of a "drive-by" is when a person pretends to care, but then quickly moves on.
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Parental Alienation: Recognizing the Signs Early
Combating parental alienation can seem nearly impossible unless you know how it works and what to do. A fictional scenario helps explain.
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The Cultural Unconscious May Explain Why Things Feel Bleak
Seventy-four percent of adults identify the future of the U.S. as a source of stress. The cultural unconscious helps explain shared feelings of anxiety.
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What Thermometers Can Teach Us About Loneliness
We trust a thermometer because people spent centuries checking it. Loneliness measures haven't had that work, and errors send help to the wrong places.
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Why We Keep Repeating What Hurt Us
Why do we keep finding ourselves in familiar painful patterns? Sometimes our attempts to heal old wounds unintentionally recreate them.
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What You Lose When You Lose a Sibling
Any loss is accompanied by emotional pain, but when people lose siblings, a unique and nuanced type of grief can result, in which they experience several different layers of grief.
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Is Weight Loss Less Valid Without Struggle?
Why do some people welcome GLP-1 medications while others hesitate? Beyond medical concerns, the decision may reveal how we understand self-control, effort, and achievement.
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An Abandoned Pacifier Stirs a Moving Conversation
Personal Perspective: A baby’s pacifier is much more than an inanimate object. It is a powerful carrier of the mother’s daily experiences and a vault for memories.
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What if a Chatbot Really Could Be a Friend?
Chatbots are increasingly present in our lives. AI tools can't replace human connection, but they may strengthen and enrich our social world in meaningful ways.
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Job Crafting at 25
Job crafting has come a long way in 25 years. Here's what two anniversary special issues reveal about where the research stands today.
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The Psychological Origins of Fear-Based Advertising
Current political advertising, using conditioning of fear, uses methods pioneered by behavioral psychologist John B. Watson. Such methods pose severe challenges in a democracy.
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Why We Can’t Just Stop Feeling Guilty
We are often told to just let go of guilt, but we rarely talk about why it can feel like letting go of who we are. Find out why challenging guilt is so hard and what to do about it.
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The 'Culting' of Mental Health Diagnosis
Mental health product marketing has strategically worked to sell the diagnosis, not the product.