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Your dog may be your best friend. There are many reasons why dogs are “man’s best friend”. Unlike human BFFs, they&#039;re great listeners. Read on to learn much more.

5 Reasons Why Your Dog Is Your Best Friend

The Differences Between Personality, Temperament, and Character

In this article, we discuss the primary clinical resources and concepts of acceptance and commitment therapy.

ACT Concepts and Clinical Strategies

The Reasons Why I Love Myself

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How is it possible for two doctors to give different diagnoses for the same symptoms and clinical realities? The psychologist and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman calls this kind of variability &quot;noise&quot;.

Noise, the Flaw in Our Decision Making According to Daniel Kahneman

The most dangerous animals in the world can also be fascinating. However, they&#039;re better viewed from a safe distance. Here are thirteen of them.

13 of the Most Dangerous Animals in the World

How do we classify literature? What genres are there? What defines them and what contribution do each of them make? In this article, we tell you.

What Are The Most Important Literary Genres?

Sexiness is subjective. However, is there really a way to be sexier? Here&#039;s what science has to say on the subject.

Do You Want to Know How to be Sexier? Here are Nine Tips

Mentally strong parents are characterized by being the best prepared for the parenting process. Learn to identify some of their traits in this article.

Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do Any of These Things

Listen to your body. This is the maxim that intuitive eating follows. In this article, we want to talk, in a more concrete way, about this particular philosophy regarding diet.

Intuitive Eating, What is it and What are its Benefits?

It seems that you can design your diet to improve your sexual attractiveness. Here are seven foods foods that contribute to it.

Seven Foods That Increase Your Sex Appeal

The differences between Alzheimer&#039;s and dementia are sometimes difficult to understand. However, in this article, we explain them clearly. 

The Differences Between Alzheimer's and Dementia

There are at least eight differences between multiple sclerosis and ALS. In this article, you can learn about them.

The Differences Between Multiple Sclerosis and ALS

Are you low on energy? In that case, you may need to include the foods that we talk about in this article in your diet. You may also need to change a few habits.

Three Foods That Increase Your Energy Levels

Patience, patience and more patience. Relationship breakups are a form of grief and, as such,  should be given the necessary importance. Find out how to deal with these situations below.

How to Heal a Broken Heart

Love and lust are two different manifestations of affection that are often confused. In this article we study what they are and how they differ.

The Major Differences Between Lust and Love

When your partner tells you they need time, you might begin to imagine the worst scenario: the breakdown of your relationship. However, how realistic are your fears? 

Your Partner's Asked You For Time to Think, What Should You Do?

Having a first child is challenging. In fact, many parents feel overwhelmed by worries and problems they&#039;ve never faced before. The following strategies can help.

The Five Most Common Problems of New Parents

If your partner doesn&#039;t want to have children and you do, you face a dilemma that you must solve together. Here are some tips to make it a healthy and respectful process.

My Partner Doesn't Want to Have Children: What Can I Do?

Having two hemispheres of the brain is a peculiarity shared by many animals, including slugs and bees. This is what neuroscience has to say on the subject.

Why Does The Brain Have Two Hemispheres?

Brain androgyny is a condition that appears to have an important link to mental health. Find out more in this article.

Brain Androgyny: What is it and What are its Benefits?

Feeling heard and understood is a basic need at any age. In fact, evidence suggests that having someone to talk to and listen to you reverses cognitive decline.

Being Listened to Reduces Cognitive Decline

Pain asymbolia not only involves the inability to react to any harmful aversive stimulus. In fact, in some cases the sufferer tries to experience pain by self-harm.

Pain Asymbolia, The Complete Absence of Physical Pain

Technological interfaces will soon allow us to improve many of our capabilities. In fact, right now, there are already people with quadriplegia who can write on a computer just by thinking about it, thanks to artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence Will Soon Allow Us to Write With Our Thoughts

Cold, calculating men and women are smart, methodical, and adept at deception. Their objective is to instrumentalize people. How do they do it?

Seven Keys for Recognizing Cold and Calculating People

Spoiled children don&#039;t value what they have, because they always get what they want. Therefore, you must impose boundaries on them. 

The Characteristics of Spoiled Children and How to Set Boundaries for Them

In addition to the typical sadness that we usually associate with depression, there are more subtle behaviors that can hide this problem. We explain the most frequent ones below.

Six of the Silent Signs of Depression

When you approach the forbidden you experience an interesting and attractive mix of feelings. Discover everything your mind goes through in these types of situations.

No Matter How Old We Are, We Love the Forbidden

Arrogance is the sister of ignorance. It&#039;s a characteristic that reveals a type of personality we see more and more frequently and in which the substrates of narcissism also hide.

The Agnorant Personality, When Arrogance and Ignorance Combine

If you ever find yourself feeling completely stuck, it&#039;s important to stop every now and then to work out what you&#039;re doing. Here, we reflect on some habits that you can resume to achieve personal success.

Six Tips to Help You Control Your Personal Success

Ten Sayings from Marilyn Monroe to Reflect Upon

Where&#039;s the heroism in today&#039;s world? What defines the contemporary hero? In this article, we&#039;ll tell you.

The Psychology of Heroism, Courageous Patterns of Behavior

Negative thoughts are damaging. Find out in this article how you can break the chain of negative thinking. 

How to Break the Chain of Negative Thinking

There are some extremely simple mechanisms that allow you to rekindle your enthusiasm. If you want to know which ones, this article is for you.

Nine Tips to Help Awaken Your Enthusiasm

Not being able to make ends meet doesn&#039;t only have an economic cost, it has a devastating mental impact. In fact, job insecurity is leaving thousands of victims in its wake.

Salary and Mental Health: The Psychological Cost of Precariousness

Plural leadership is a theoretical proposal that points towards power structures that are less centered on individuals and more oriented towards groups.

Plural Leadership, a Future Management Model for the Workplace?

Work stressors are often identified in relation to the company itself. However, they&#039;re also associated with the individual and their own position in the company.

The Many Kinds of Stressors in the Workplace

Working too hard has negative physical and psychological effects. You should pay attention to the seven signs in this article.

Seven Signs That Mean You're Working Too Hard

If you have an envious co-worker, you may find the atmosphere at work unpleasant. However, it&#039;s best not to let this affect you.

5 Signs That You Have an Envious Colleague

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Crises bring us face to face with reality. The make the horizon clearer, leaving just the important and essential things in our field of vision. Out job is to bring this clarity back into our everyday lives, in order to make things better. In this article, discover why crises are opportunities.

Crises Are Opportunities to Focus on What's Really Important

Slavoj Zizek is a prominent thinker, whose thoughts currently revolve around one idea: that the current crisis is the coup de grâce for capitalism.

What the Future Holds, According to Slavoj Zizek

Many of our projects and dreams fell apart in the midst of the current pandemic. We&#039;re told about the new reality, but we miss our old reality. What strategies should we apply to face this situation of change and uncertainty?

The Projects and Dreams the Pandemic Took Away: How to Face the Future

Nightmares. Vivid dreams. Waking up panicking... The pandemic is disrupting our sleep and influencing our dream world with recurring dreams. However, science has an explanation for these dreams and nightmares during the pandemic.

Dreams and Nightmares during the Pandemic: A Side Effect of Anxiety

Many countries have discovered that they have mediocre, malicious. or downright stupid individuals as their leaders. We&#039;re experiencing a coronavirus leadership crisis, which is preventing a global agreement to address a situation that concerns us all.

The Coronavirus Leadership Crisis

Bread-making, knitting, sewing, gardening... Confinement is bringing back the pleasure of performing tasks by hand, something that&#039;s highly beneficial for the brain, as it reduces anxiety and stress. Discover all about the &quot;do it at home&quot; trend here.

"Do It At Home": The New Trend in Times of Pandemic

Love in times of uncertainty is especially difficult in couple separated by the pandemic. This hard situation puts the couple to the test. Thus, these couples should take some useful advice into account in order to overcome this situation.

Couples Separated by the Pandemic

During humanitarian crises, genuine and effective empathy is crucial. It&#039;s the energy that builds bridges between people with compassion and an active interest that can bring about positive change. Find out why empathy during the pandemic is so important here!

Empathy during the Pandemic: Why It's More Important than Ever

In the opinion of well-known historian Yuval Harari, the most important thing during this difficult time is to promote individual responsibility and cooperation. This can be achieved through transparent information, coupled with a willingness to cooperate and help each other.

The Pandemic Through the Eyes of Yuval Harari

Will confinement change our character? Some say that we&#039;ll come out stronger and help shape a more supportive society. Others say that the sense of anguish and the constant fear of contagion will rise.

Will Confinement Change Our Character?

Denying the pandemic costs lives. Many people (and politicians) haven&#039;t yet acted and all of this will come at a cost. What&#039;s the explanation behind pandemic denial?

Pandemic Denial: People Who Don't Accept Reality

In the current weeks of uncertainty, one of the frequent concerns is the fear of losing your job. It&#039;s a fear that many of us must face, but without losing sight of the real priority right now: keeping ourselves protected to avoid and reduce COVID-19 infections.

Fear of Losing Your Job Due to the Pandemic: What Can You Do?

Individual behavior will be crucial to controlling the spread of COVID-19. Flattening the coronavirus curve is an attempt to try to ensure that that the number of infected people never exceeds the capabilities of the hospitals to attend to us.

Flattening the Coronavirus Curve: It's in Your Hands