The Bombay Psychological Association (BPA) was founded in 1945 as a quasi academic organisation with
04/11/2021
Aaron Beck, a Penn psychiatrist and founder of CBT, has died at 100 “He’s the single most important psychiatrist in the world of the 20th century,” said Martin Seligman, a Penn psychologist who is famous in his own right as the founder of positive psychology.
05/05/2021
A Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist Says Most People Don’t Really Want to Be Happy People are more likely to choose satisfaction—the long-term feeling that comes with achieving your goals.
27/02/2021
3 Ways Your Brain Actually Improves With Age Yes, you might lose your keys more, but aging has its cognitive upsides, according to new research.
25/06/2020
Reframing Goals Can Help People Avoid Choking Under Pressure A study recently published in the Journal of Applied Psychology examined how goal-setting corresponds with performance among people
10/10/2019
How your mental trauma may have been handed down by an ancestor Many of your traits or emotions could be a result of the trauma that your ancestors went through. It could be war, genocide, poverty, abuse, violence or loss of a loved one, to name a few.
26/09/2019
12/09/2019
New Research Confirms the Cheesiest Cliché About Success Turns out life truly is about the journey, not the destination
18/07/2019
“Shooting the messenger” is a real condition, explain scientists Have you ever felt like you really didn't like the person who gave you some particularly bad news? Maybe it wasn't even their fault – all they did is tell you about it, but had nothing to do with the news themselves. Still, you couldn't help but hate them for it, even if you logically knew it wasn...
01/05/2019
Stress Won’t Go Away? Maybe You Are Suffering from Chronic Stress Chronic stress persists over an extended period of time, causing problems such as anxiety, insomnia, muscle pain, high blood pressure and weak immune system.
20/03/2019
Sleeplessness can make you angrier, more frustrated, new study shows You may have noticed that people who've had a sleepless night tend to be grumpy or irritable the next day. Research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General shows that losing even just a couple hours of sleep at night can make you angrier. Earlier studies have reported an
03/01/2019
The Horrible Anger You Feel At Hearing Someone Chewing Is A Genuine Psychiatric Disorder Do you get unfathomably angry at the sound of people doing the following: Drinking, chewing, crunching, gulping, nail-biting, slurping, swallowing, clicking, breathing, sniffling, wheezing, whistling, finger tapping… the list goes on. For some people reading this, those words alone are enough to g...
18/11/2019