The affect heuristic tells us that emotions determine a large part of your thoughts and, consequently, your decision-making. This is…
Your internal communication, especially regarding the way you talk to yourself, shapes your mood. That means it can sink your…
Everything that we are, feel, and, more importantly, what we can become, is stored in our brain. Much of our…
Today, we bring you three amazing short stories to think about. They're all anonymous. However, people have been talking about…
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Although the term metacognition is complex, you could summarize it as knowledge of knowledge itself. In other words, the ability…
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We understand radicalization as a social and psychological process that creates a growing commitment to an extremist political or religious…
Even now, intuitive thinking is a mystery to the world of science. However, we've managed to make some progress and get…
Guy de Maupassant once said: "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption". Everyone has negative thoughts…
In Zimbabwe, local tribes have an expression that perfectly sums up most modern psychological problems. It's kufungisisa, which could be translated...
The quotes from Aaron Beck in this article gather his thoughts on cognitive distortions and congruent thought. It also considers…
Balanced thinking allows you to think about the world without using a lot of filters and moderate distortion. Also, it…
You may remember philosophy as one of the most boring subjects you had at school. Yet philosophy is a fundamental part of…
We're so used to thinking in one specific way that focusing on what happens to us any other way is…
Strategic thinking is a concept that made a name for itself in the area of marketing. However, it is also…
If you want to learn to think like Sherlock Holmes, you have to get into his mind. That is no…
Superstition is actually just a side effect of our ability to learn. Any living thing that's able to make connections between…
In any given day, we make a lot of decisions. And we make most of them at the speed of light,…
Fernando Pessoa is one of the greatest poets of all time. He was born in Portugal and lived at the…
Theory of mind (ToM) is the ability to distinguish between your own mind and that of others. It allows you…
