Summary: A study by Rutgers University reveals that a significant number of parents in the US, around 7%, say they wouldn’t have children if they could do it over again. The fear of missing out, or “FOMO,” is a key motivator for these parents. The researchers collected narratives from Reddit’s /r/childfree subreddit, an online community…
Category: Psychology
We shape our thoughts more quickly the more we like them. But we must prioritize unconventional thinking if we are to be innovative. Researchers from Inserm at the Paris Brain Institute Alizée Lopez-Persem and Emmanuelle Volle demonstrated this in a recent study. Through the use of a computational model to reproduce the many elements of…
Rachel Nuwer’s “I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World,” is clearly aimed at a broad audience. It will resonate with readers who have experienced MDMA recreationally, probably at a rave, or therapeutically, probably to heal the emotional aftereffects of deep-seated trauma. Or both. But it’s also intended for readers…
According to a new James Cook University study, being vague may not be the best way to make friends and influence people. Dr. Deming (Adam) Wang, a social psychologist, and his team conducted nine experiments with Western and Asian participants to examine the reception of ambiguous and direct responses to queries. Ambiguous responses were sometimes…
Trauma bonding is a complex emotional response that can develop in relationships characterized by abuse, trauma, and neglect. The term trauma bonds (also known as traumatic bonds) was coined by psychologists George Dutton and Susan Painter to describe emotional bonds with an individual (and sometimes a group) that result from a recurring, cyclical pattern of…
In the field of behavioural psychology, conditioning refers to the learning process through which our behaviours change as a result of experiences. There are two primary types of conditioning: classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Both of these learning processes contribute to our understanding of how we acquire new knowledge and how our environment shapes our…
Normalcy bias, also known as normality bias, is a cognitive bias that leads people to underestimate or dismiss the likelihood and potential effects of a crisis or disaster. This bias often occurs because individuals believe that things will carry on as usual, despite any signs or warnings suggesting otherwise. As a result, people may not take the…
Cassandra Syndrome is a term derived from Greek mythology. It has been adopted by some modern psychologists to describe individuals who suffer physically and emotionally as a result of distressing personal perceptions and who are disbelieved when they attempt to share the source of their suffering with others. In mythology, Cassandra was a priestess gifted…
The anchoring bias effect, also known as the anchoring effect, is a cognitive bias that influences decision-making and judgment. It occurs when people rely too heavily on the first piece of information they encounter, known as the anchor, and subsequently adjust their evaluations and predictions based on this reference point. This heuristics causes a distortion…