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People in a state of ataraxy are usually calm and serene. However, a neurological alteration may be behind this emotional gelidity and complete absence of fear.

Ataraxy: the State of Serene Calmness

The world is constantly changing, and with it the phenomena that precipitate pathologies. Today, we’re going to talk about new addictions according to Vicente Caballo&#039;s classification system.

New Addictions: Classification and Intervention

Family trauma involves an event that completely changes a family&#039;s trajectory. In this article, we talk about this issue and how to overcome it.

How to Deal with Family Trauma

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Cameras on mobile devices have  multiplied the number of mirrors in our lives. Indeed, we continually have the opportunity to see our image reflected back at us. However, how does this affect us?

Zoom Dysmorphia: The Distortion of Self-Image

Your name is the first thing that people usually learn about you. Here, you can learn how it can open or close doors for you, as well as influence how you position yourself against the different obstacles you may have to face in life.

Does Your Name Affect Your Personality?

Do you enjoy the weekend? If so, do you know someone who doesn&#039;t? In this article, we talk about why some people suffer when they should be enjoying their free time.

Why Some of Us Hate Weekends

Technology has managed to improve our lives in many aspects. Today, we&#039;re going to find out how helpful apps are that claim to improve our mental health. 

Mental Health Apps: How Effective Are They?

How does the fetus develop while it&#039;s in the mother&#039;s womb? What limitations are imposed on it by its developing senses? When does it start learning? We answer these and other interesting questions about fetal life.

Five Skills That Are Established Before Birth

All optimal coping strategies begin with acceptance. Without managing an adjusted perspective of what&#039;s happening, it&#039;s difficult to take action. How can this be done?

How to Manage the Impact of a Chronic Illness

I&#039;m facing a diagnosis of a chronic illness. They&#039;re harsh words to hear. There&#039;s no cure, it&#039;s not an injury (I wish it was). However, my diagnosis has made me realize that people with fibromyalgia don&#039;t need pity, they need understanding.

Fibromyalgia: A Sufferer's Account

Environmental health is an important issue on both a collective and an individual scale.

The Importance of Environmental Health

Online consultations with medical professionals have recently become increasingly popular, even more so due to the pandemic.

Psychological Video Consultations: Telemedicine in Mental Health

If you have a relative suffering from Alzheimer&#039;s, here are some tips for caring for them and also for understanding the disease itself. 

Alzheimer's: Advice and Help for Relatives

If you have a happy and positive partner, who makes everything easy for you, your psychological well-being improves. What&#039;s more, according to science, it could even help you live longer.

Having an Optimistic Partner Can Help You Live Longer

Why do you fall in love with one type of person and not another? According to Helen Fisher, our love type defines our patterns of attraction. Discover which one is yours!

The Four Love Types, According to Helen Fisher

If it&#039;s difficult for you to face conflict and you prefer to avoid it, here are six tips to help you deal with it.

Six Tips to Help You Deal With Conflict

Coldness and lack of emotional connection in a partner may be due to their own personal circumstances or the relationship itself. We discuss the reasons why you may feel that your partner isn&#039;t showing you affection and how to address the issue.

Why Doesn't Your Partner Show You Affection?

Starting a relationship with a person who has children usually increases the number and difficulty of challenges you have to face. In this article, we give you some ideas to help.

Nobody Wants to Be the Wicked Stepmother

To what extent do dogs understand the death of a loved one? How do they usually behave when this occurs? We explain.

Like Humans, Dogs Grieve After a Death, Claims Recent Research

It&#039;s estimated that, from the age of six, children demonstrate intuitive learning. This means that they&#039;re able to learn and make decisions relying only on their hunches.

Intuitive Learning: Acting on Your Hunches

Observation is one of the main elements of the scientific method. It allows the acquisition of valuable information about the object of study. We take a look at the method that&#039;s based on this process: the observational method.

The Observational Method

Have you lately been feeling a greater need to eat sweets? However, when you eat them, do you feel like they don&#039;t taste the same as before? This could be an effect of stress sustained over time. We explain further in this article.

Science Claims That Stress Modifies Your Perception of Taste

A neuromarketing experiment, conducted in Spain, demonstrated that there are specific factors that make a person pay more attention and experience greater intensity in their emotions when faced with certain advertisements.

A Neuromarketing Experiment in the Effects of TV Advertising

What makes us more vulnerable to eating disorders? What can we do as a society to avoid increasing the vulnerability of some people in developing them? In this article we&#039;ll tell you.

Seven Interesting Facts About Eating Disorders

The best thing about the Wolpe relaxation technique is that it&#039;s a really simple method that anyone can practice without any problem. It helps reduce stress and all its annoying effects.

Wolpe's Relaxation Technique

Sometimes, strong pressure is put on women to get pregnant. However, being constantly reminded and having impositions put on them doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;ll happen. The question is: what should you do if you have to deal with this kind of situation?

Coping With Anxiety Over Trying to Conceive

Are narcissists fully aware of their behavior? Moreover, do they know that their way of being has a negative effect on others? Science provides the answers.

Are Narcissists Aware of Their Narcissism?

Many people, at some point in their lives fall into patterns of self-destructive behaviors such as addictions, self-harm, etc. Motivational enhancement therapy is an approach that seeks to empower them to take control of their lives.

Motivational Enhancement Therapy

There&#039;s nothing wrong with preferring solitude, as long as it doesn&#039;t mean you isolate yourself from the world. However, if this happens, your mental health could suffer. That&#039;s why it&#039;s important to look for ways to stop isolating yourself.

Five Tips to Help You Stop Isolating Yourself

As long as you have more good days than bad, everything will be fine. Life isn&#039;t a yellow brick road. It&#039;s full of difficulties to be overcome and right now, you&#039;re doing really well.

As Long as You Have More Good Days Than Bad, You'll Be Okay

What does a good life mean to you? Science tells us that genuine satisfaction lies in possessing &#039;psychological richness&#039;. It means enjoying meaningful experiences   that change us and allow us to make new discoveries.

Psychological Richness: The Key to Happiness?

The number of adolescents experiencing body dissatisfaction has increased. Social media is partly to blame. Here&#039;s what you can do to help your child.

Six Tips to Help Teens Overcome Their Image Problems

When you carry around feelings of anger, bitterness, or resentment from the past, it&#039;s difficult to achieve a sense of well-being. Find out how letters of forgiveness can help you in this regard.

Forgiveness Letters: Powerful Tools for Emotional Release

Do you feel that you&#039;re going nowhere? Does it seem that your work always goes wrong despite your best efforts? If so, you may be suffering from apathy in the workplace.

How to Deal With Apathy in the Workplace

How much time do you waste going to and from work? Science claims that the hours we spend commuting are a major source of stress and anxiety.

Commuting Can Be Bad For Our Health

The only way to find a stress-free job is to completely rethink work environments. This is because if an employee perceives their position as a threat or their rights are violated, the psychological impact will always be present.

Is it Possible to Find a Stress-Free Job?

In the United States and some other countries, many people have quit their jobs because they consider that they impoverish their lives, even if they enrich their pockets. It&#039;s called the anti work movement.

The Anti Work Movement: A Growing Trend

Work ethics include the beliefs that jobs are defined by values and behaviors and guided by respect, coexistence, a sense of justice, professionalism, and humility.

Work Ethics: Fairness and Equality in the Workplace

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The invisible gorilla experiment surprises everyone who hasn&#039;t heard about it before. Its results show how our selective attention works and the mistakes we can make with it.

The Invisible Gorilla: A Classic Experiment in Perception

Well-being is an integral part of who we are as people. Its evaluation is influenced by different factors. In this regard, the Subjective Happiness Scale lets us measure this individual perception.

What's the Subjective Happiness Scale?

We often choose to see or understand what we want to. This is known as selective perception. Find out how this can affect your way of seeing life in this article.