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Psychology Addict # 66 | Paedophilia.

I’ve been meaning to discuss this topic on the platform for quite a while now. But I’ve always been put off by the understanding that this is a subject people d...

Psychology Addict # 65 | Self-Awareness: Investigating the Past & Making New Year’s Resolutions.

It is that time of the year when even those who are not very fond of planning take a moment to make resolutions. It is that time of the year when even those who...

Psychology Addict # 64 | The Romantic Love Delusion.

Romance refers to strong emotional feelings featuring courtship behaviour towards another person. Delusion is a term that describes beliefs that are sustained d...

Psychology Addict # 63 | Loneliness or Emotional Dependency?

”I feel/am lonely” is a ubiquitous statement nowadays. It’s on social media, on blogs as well as in online and offline conversations. The kind of loneliness I a...

Psychology Addict # 62 | Joker & Frankeinstein – A Matter of Identity.

Nobody wants to think how it feels like to be the other guy. Joker. Disclaimer – (1) This is not a movie (Joker) or book (Frankenstein) review. (2) This is not ...

Psychology Addict # 61 | Talking About Guilt.

.png) This post has been mostly inspired by a comment that was left on my feed last week, which was in the context of the advances seen in the understanding of ...

Psychology Addict # 60 | A Journey Through The History of Madness.

Disclaimer: In this post words such as lunacy, insane, madhouse, among others, have been adopted to communicate the ways psychological distress has been regarde...

Psychology Addict # 59 | Discussing Modern Caregiving.

We were choosing which dessert to go for when Nora asked me: “So, what are you guys doing this Easter?” I told her we’d been invited to have lunch at Alice’s (a...

Psychology Addict # 58 | Punishment – An Overview Through the Lens of Psychology.

Behaviour is the manner with which individuals act or conduct themselves, particularly in relation to others and the environment they are part of. Not all kinds...

Psychology Addict # 57 | Memories From The After Life.

Emmanuel Francis, a 41 year-old man, remembers “flying around and following his own body” as the nurses rushed him into the lift on the way to the intensive car...

Psychology Addict # 56 | Reflections on Anger.

I got angry this week. I got angry with Maria (I’m going to call her Maria here). I am not an anger-prone person. In fact, it takes quite a significant amount o...

Psychology Addict # 55 | The Role Biology Plays in Defining Who We Are - A Critical Discussion.

Schopenhauer was a German philosopher who came up with the concept of the Will-to-Life, which according to him is an internal force that pushes us forward and c...

Psychology Addict # 54 | Metacognition, Neuroplasticity & PR’s Incredible Brain.

PR is a real person who, together with another 56 individuals, took part in the experimental study conducted by Lemaitre et. al (2018) ref.. PR is a married 43 ...

The Steem Torch & A Few Words from Me 😊

Hello Dear Readers, And here it is, a non-psychology post! Can you believe it? The things is … there is a social experiment going on on the Steemit platform: Th...

Psychology Addict # 53 | Thoughts – Key Players in The Field of Well-Being.

It had been almost one hour chatting with Clarice. I always prefer to call people than message them. But Clarice said she couldn’t talk. I respected her choice....

Psychology Addict # 52 | Mental Illness – A Straight-Forward Discussion about a Non Straight-Forward Topic.

One of my habits from back when I was a teenager was to flick through the magazines and newspapers my parents subscribed to. There were those that were delivere...

Psychology Addict # 51 | Self-Harm – An Overview Through the Biopsychosocial Lens

I know, I know the latter terminology in the title is a bit of a mouthful. Nevertheless, its concept is very straight forward. So, let’s get straight into it 😊...

Linking Steem and Snax

I want to link my Steem account with my account on Snax blockchain using https://getnabla.app. Please, create Snax account for me! My authentication hash: b1d61...

Psychology Addict # 50 | Why Good People Do Evil Things?

Disclaimer – this post discusses the actions and fate of a Nazi officer, as well as killings and infliction of physical pain unrelated to the Holocaust. The ori...

Psychology Addict # 49 | Where do Human’s Moral Convictions Come From? - A Psychological Overview

Meno asked Socrates: Socrates, can you tell me, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or, whether it comes to humans by nature, or in what othe...