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If you want to improve your memory, you need to know how your brain works. You might be surprised to hear that your lifestyle habits might be making it difficult for you to correctly record each piece of information, experience, or learning.

The Secret to Improving Your Memory, According to Science

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Why do we like simulation games? What&#039;s so good about them? In this article, we talk about a way of returning to childhood, with all its advantages (and even more), in the context of an imaginative and fun experience.

Simulation Games: Why Are They so Popular?

Being alone can be a two-sided coin. Sometimes, you enjoy it and at others you avoid it.

Some Curious Facts About Loneliness

Fantastic stories, essays, novels... Behind any book, of any genre, you can find a story that really leaves its mark on you, the lucky reader. 

Ten Books To Make You Think. They Might Even Change Your Life

An increasing amount of people who are divorced, separated, or don&#039;t have any family responsibilities are now living alone. For many, it&#039;s a fulfilling experience. However, others are suffering in silence due to the loneliness of living alone. 

Living Alone After 50 Is Becoming Increasingly Common

It&#039;s curious how our minds work. The Pratfall effect is a good example of this, or how someone may start to like us better when we make a mistake.

The Pratfall Effect: Why Imperfection Makes Us More Likeable

Mothers usually take special care with certain risk factors during pregnancy. However, what about their emotional life? What role does it play in the development of the fetus?

Can Babies Feel Their Mothers' Emotions in the Womb?

The Quetelet index, later renamed the BMI, has made several companies a lot of money. What&#039;s behind it?

The Quetelet Index: A Statistician's Work Used to Make Money

There&#039;s a medical mystery that&#039;s both extraordinary and terrifying at the same time. People with dehiscence syndrome can hear the movement of their eyeballs and even the circulation of blood ascending to their brain.

Dehiscence Syndrome: Hearing Your Eyes Move and Your Blood Circulate

Pregnancy is a revolution for a woman&#039;s body. During the nine months of gestation, her body adapts to various changes, many of which aren&#039;t obvious to an outside observer.

The Invisible Changes of Pregnancy

During a respected delivery, the woman feels respected, listened to, and owns her own experience of childbirth. Find out what psychological benefits this type of childbirth brings.

Respected Childbirth and Its Psychological Importance

When you fall for someone, you might lose your head and only let your heart speak. This can lead you to make mistakes, the kind that you should be aware of. 

Nine Mistakes You Make When You Like Someone

Some people prefer to have casual sex. The kind in which there&#039;s no emotional connection with the other. This inclination is called sociosexuality.

Sociosexuality: Having Sex Without Commitment or Emotional Attachment

&quot;I love you, but I&#039;m leaving you.&quot; It seems like a contradiction, breaking up a relationship when love still exists. How can you deal with these situations? Find out here.

How to Leave Someone You Love

Despite the fact that authoritarianism is almost always associated with the father figure, the truth is that authoritarian mothers are also quite common. However, in these cases, the emotional impact can be more damaging and leave really deep emotional scars on the child.

Authoritarian Mothers: What Are They Like?

Lending money is always a delicate subject in a relationship, especially if the amount is significant. However, this isn&#039;t the only variable that has an influence. 

Can Lending Money Ruin a Relationship?

A child&#039;s body undergoes physical changes, some of which are not particularly obvious. Many of these changes occur in the brain. We explain what happens inside the brain when children misbehave.

Neuroscience Can Explain Children's Bad Behavior

Why do we cry? Why is it a reaction we&#039;ve retained as we&#039;ve evolved over time?  What&#039;s its function, beyond cleaning the eyes  when there&#039;s a foreign body in them? We tell you  about crying and its fundamental role in different social scenarios.

What Happens to Your Body When You Cry?

It&#039;s time to break one more gender stereotype and state that men can be as emotional as women. The problem lies in society, which penalizes them for expressing their feelings and showing vulnerability.

Science Claims That Men Are as Emotional as Women

How you feel is influenced by different factors and variables. Hormones are one example. They&#039;re protagonists when you feel bad as well as when you feel good.

Hormones Play a Leading Role in How You Feel

Who hasn&#039;t ever experienced fear? However, do you know what its function is? Also, does it really help you? It seems so.

The Purpose of Fear

Non-pathological narcissists have an emotional armor to protect their weak and fearful selves. However, where does such a fragile self come from?

Non-Pathological Narcissism and Emotional Armor

Being ourselves, listening to our hearts, and not ignoring our emotions. There&#039;s a certain romanticism in the behavior of visceral people.

Visceral People, When Instinct Dominates Reason

Recent research has overturned the long-held belief that serotonin deficits underlie depression. In fact, it&#039;s a rather more complex issue.

Science Claims That Serotonin Imbalance Doesn't Cause Depression

Do you have a great fear of contracting a disease? Do you tend to misinterpret and exaggerate your body&#039;s signals? If so, you&#039;ll be interested to learn about hypochondria and nosophobia, two similar yet different disorders.

Hypochondria and Nosophobia: Two Manifestations of the Fear of Illness

Children who grew up feeling as if they were invisible and as if nothing they felt mattered may have been suffering from passive emotional neglect. They often only discover this fact on reaching adulthood.

Passive Childhood Emotional Neglect: Growing Up Feeling Invisible

Mental contrasting is a really useful strategy to use. It employs a moderate dose of optimism that you need to fuel your motivation. We talk about how to perform this technique and take advantage of the results of applying it.

Mental Contrasting, a Way of Avoiding Naive Optimism

We&#039;ve collected some of the best quotes from Edgar Allan Poe. You can discover his ideas about beauty, life, death, and madness, among other topics.

25 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

How many times have you had a hard time falling asleep because you couldn&#039;t stop thinking? It happens to all of us. Here, we talk about how to switch off that vicious circle of worrying thoughts. 

Nocturnal Rumination: How to Stop Those Tormenting Nighttime Worries

Complacency can give you peace at certain times, but it can also turn you into someone who&#039;s at the mercy of the wind, without the will or aspiration to control your environment. In this article, we talk about complacency and its consequences.

How Complacency Can Prevent You From Moving Forward

Perhaps you&#039;ve never really thought about it, but, just as you have behavioral habits, which you call your routine, you also have certain emotional habits. What are they? Do you know how they affect you?

How to Change Your Emotional Habits

In the workplace, there are many instruments of control that reflect your competence and performance. In this article, we&#039;re going to talk about orientation, one of the main compromising variables.

How to Stay on Track at Work

How do you manage your tasks at work? Are you comfortable with your organization system? In this article, we&#039;ll talk about the most common mistakes in this area.

Five Mistakes That Stop You From Managing Your Work Tasks Efficiently

Have you ever considered quitting your job? Do you know how to tell whether or not it&#039;s wise to do so? In this article we&#039;ll tell you.

Seven Signs It's Time to Quit Your Job

What happens when your main motivation is simply that others recognize your achievements and progress? Find out here.

The Dangers of Working Solely to Boost the Ego

Theory Z is based on the Japanese leadership style in which humanism and the trust of workers with their superiors are decisive aspects. According to Professor William Ouchi, good relationships are key to productivity.

William Ouchi: Theory Z of Leadership

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How can you have a healthy self-esteem? Various factors are involved, including working on your personal integrity.

Personal Integrity, One of the Pillars of Self-Esteem

Many times unconscious guilt manifests itself through depression and anxiety. In depression, there&#039;s a feeling of dissatisfaction with oneself and the world. In anxiety, through the expectation of harm or punishment.

How Unconscious Guilt Manifests Itself

Have you ever felt that you were your own worst enemy? To defeat your internal enemy, the first step is recognizing that you have a problem.

Healthy self-esteem