Dealing with bullies is never easy. When most people think of bullying, they think of playground antics, but bullies can target people of all ages and from all walks of life. There are bullies in schools, in the workplace, and even in local neighbourhoods. Adults usually have the social skills and confidence to ignore or …
All humans are innately equipped with the ability to laugh. But for the longest time scientists have wondered how this behavior evolved. Unlike hunting, laughter is not learned, it is built into our system like sneezing. A group of scientists in Spain, however, have come up with initial answers. They’re saying that the evolution of …
While everyone wants to be happy, only very few people are good at being happy no matter what the circumstance. Most of the time, people hear or observe something and then react to it by feeling bad. If it’s not that, people blame a problem, a person or situation for their lack of happiness. However, …
It’s been said that our mood sometimes can depend on the season, and there’s this lingering belief that the summer months make us happier. But is this true? Let’s find out.It is true that during winter people tend to be gloomy or even suffer from depression because of the lack of sunlight. Some people even …
For a long time it was believed that laughter was a uniquely human thing to do, but in 2009 scientists discovered something amazing. Laughter is actually an evolutionary response, and our ancestors were doing it as far back as ten million years ago. The study, conducted by psychologists at Portsmouth University, found that if you …
When you stop to think about the way that love can often make you feel, it will more than likely make you wonder whether or not love can be classified as a drug or not. Certainly, it is not a synthetic drug like any other substance that addicts would fall victim to. However, when you …
Happiness is an elusive state for many people. We are under so much stress on a day to day basis, and we have so many things calling for our time that we struggle to find time for ourselves and do not devote enough of our minds to the pursuit of happiness. The good news is …
Sports psychology plays an important part in any form of sports competition. It is well recognised that the mind and body perform the best when they are one. When the body wants to achieve something, but the mind is thinking otherwise, the optimal results cannot be achieved. A sports competitor’s goal is to be at …
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When we allow our minds to wander and explore possibilities, an interesting thing happens to our brain chemistry that is not really happen at any other time. It seems to open up our brain to the possibilities of life, getting endorphins flowing in a way that nothing besides physical activity can do – except for …
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The imagination is an interesting part of the human mind. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a book titled The Imaginary, with the subtitle A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination, which aims to explain the concept of human imagination, and what that imagination shows us about the way that consciousness works. Our imagination is different to our sense …