Browsing: Mental Health

The new season gives us another opportunity to revisit one of the psychological questions that has always been at the heart of the series: What actually helps people change?

We all have that one thing that we love to do. Some people like baking, others like collecting records or dressing up like superheroes. For others, like Ed, it’s throwing boomerangs

Even when your body has had enough, your brain can still crave food. This intriguing phenomenon highlights how pleasurable food can seem appealing, despite feelings of fullness. Influences like food cues, emotional states, and distractions feed these cravings. Understanding the roots of your hunger can help you eat more consciously, making your choices deliberate rather…

Many of us grew up in an era of commercials, ads, and stereotypes of men being the breadwinners and “bringing home the bacon.” Today, many women bring home the bacon, too. The surge of women in the workforce compared with men is a documented reality.[i] Some women have become the breadwinner within their own families,…

Psychology says waiting without knowing how long feels harder than waiting longer with certainty

A New Mexico judge has ruled that Meta helped fuel the state’s youth mental health crisis through the design of Facebook and Instagram, finding the company created a public nuisance and ordering it to pay $567 million for treatment and prevention programs

No one knows what causes Alzheimer’s disease. There are plenty of risk factors associated with the neurodegenerative disease, like inflammation, smoking, and genetics, but so far no single culprit has emerged. A new study published in Translational Psychiatry, however, investigated the link between Alzheimer’s and another risk factor, depression, leading to some surprising results

Here are some celebrities who have emerged as elected leaders in the United States:

I’ve completed a lot of research into friendship across the lifespan, and what has always been a given is that friendships are voluntary relationships between two people. That “chosen” nature of friendship has always made it something special. These relationships are built on mutuality, reciprocity, and genuine fondness for one another

Electric vehicles have their own set of advantages and disadvantages, making them a subject of debate among both supporters and critics. U.S. President Donald Trump has been one of the more outspoken voices on the issue and recently directed his criticism at EV owners themselves