Psychology

Honesty is essential to healthy relationships. The truth has transformative power. If someone has made an error in their behaviour, or continuous errors, telling them the truth can often result in a correction of that behaviour. It’s…

Hey Google: "What does left brain dominant mean?" Your brain is split into two hemispheres, simply designated ‘left’ and ‘right’. Both hemispheres have distinct but equally important functions. To understand the role each hemisphere…

Loneliness is genetic, and beatable. It is a common human experience. It's those negative emotions that one feels when their needs for social connections are not met. These may include sadness, frustration, shame and desperation.…

Conscientiousness and success, in psychology, the two are almost synonymous. Conscientious people tend to do better in life than those who don’t. This is a millennia old truth, yet it is only in the past century that psychology has been…

Gratitude is a perennial human experience. The wonderful thing about psychology is that it can add empirical information to such human experience. By examining the psychology behind gratitude, we can understand its importance for healthy,…

The current president of the United States is fond of taking credit for accomplishments that aren't his. One namesake he's definitely earned, however, and something he'd probably rather not hang his name on, is something mental health…

At first glance, the psychologist and the writer make unlikely bedfellows: the bohemian creative versus the silent sage.  If the task of the psychologist is to study, assess, and treat problems affecting the human mind, then the writer must…

Climate Change is undeniable, with CO2 levels in our atmosphere being the highest that they’ve ever been in 3 million years. The role of overconsumption and overproduction in climate change cannot be overstated. We live in a world of…

During the recent Belfast rape trial, one of the defence barristers raised the question with the jury: why didn’t she (the complainant) scream the house down? This was echoed in discussions on social media, in conversations with friends,…

Self-compassion has something of an image problem… Instagram photos of bubble baths or frothy coffees are accompanied by bromides encouraging us to #lookafteryourself or #haveameday. Many of us can be deeply skeptical of self-compassion,…