Psychology

Being logical and consistent could be conceived as personality traits. They either refer to your position towards a particular issue or a bypass product of reasoning. In addition, straightening your vital thoughts and experiences is positive for your psychological health.…

Many people fear the dark, certain animals, and natural phenomena such as storms, among other things, as children. But in most cases, those fears start to go away as they grow. However, there’s one fear that’s really hard for children…

Sexism is the assumed inferiority of women as a group. It’s an attitude that has stuck around and evolved throughout history due to many sociological reasons. But sexism has long led to the oppression of women for the simple fact…

Few things generate as much mistrust as lying. Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that no one enjoys the company of a liar. However, some lies are socially acceptable. We call them white lies and everyone uses them to some…

The world is full of myths related to sensitive men. This is why it’s a topic of great interest to many people, a topic we’re now seeing from a different perspective. Now, before we continue, we’d like to clarify that…

The main goal of the field of differential epidemiology is to establish a link between intelligence (or the G factor), personality traits, and mortality.  In a study conducted at the University of Edinburgh in 2017, researchers discovered a link between people…

Perhaps few names are as sinister as what psychoanalysts have baptized as the death drive. However, although this drive is always destructive, it’s not the enemy of our survival as long as we learn to manage it well. Some life…

Think about the stereotypical image of an old person: isolated, at home enjoying their well-earned relaxation as they look at their garden or play bingo, at the age of 60. But is that right? The number of people over 85…

Everyone, at some point in their lives, has assumed the role of the victim in painful or traumatic situations. We’ve felt vulnerable, unprotected, and in need of care and protection. Victimhood culture, or victim mentality, reinforces this by making the…

Loyal people are, above all, honest people. They live their lives by a code that always lines up with their values and their commitment to being respectful towards other people. For them, there’s no room for betrayal, lies, or self-interested actions.…

Caregiving for dependent people can be a major challenge, on multiple levels, from society, to family, to you as an individual. Today, we’re going to focus on these people who help take care of the people most in need of…

Children amaze us with their creativity. Since they have no internalized standard way of communicating, they can be very inventive with this in the context of social interaction. One way they do this is by scribbling. Scribbling here refers to…

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) involves patterns of instability in an individual’s relationships, self-image, and emotions. In most cases, these patterns are considered self-destructive. In this article, we’ll discuss crisis intervention for people with BPD. People with BPD experience different crises…

People say that there’s a child inside all of us. Every single adult in the world was obviously a child at some point. Like everyone else, they were born with specific genes, in a specific environment. That environment played an important…

Addiction is one of the biggest psychological problems, not to mention the most difficult to treat. Abstinence is so uncomfortable that it’s very complicated for patients not to give in to their addictions. In addition to the classic addictions that everyone…

Currently, we have different types of psychological interventions for schizophrenia available to us. These interventions have taken an irregular course in recent years. However, something called Integrated Psychological Therapy has arrived, but what exactly is it? In recent years, the…

Marcelo Ceberio has authored books such as La Buena Comunicación (Good Communication), Los Superhéroes también Van a Terapia (Superheroes Need Therapy Too), and Cenicientas y Patitos Feos (Cinderellas and Ugly Ducklings). His impressive bibliography is inspiring and based on communication,…

For many years, social psychology has been studying persuasion techniques that can be used to change people’s attitudes and encourage people to behave in a certain way. This research not only aims to help create attractive advertising campaigns but also…

The things we’ve learned in recent years about our brain is very valuable. For starters, we know that it’s elastic and that we can change its structure. We also know that it has cognitive reserves that play a very important…

Although many people think that colors aren’t related to feelings, opinions, or behaviors, there are others who strongly believe in the relationship between color and personality. Very few people would choose garments of a color they dislike or paint their…