How the Unconscious Works | Psychology Today United Kingdom
Does the unconscious matter? You bet it does. In fact, nothing matters more.| Psychology Today
Does the unconscious matter? You bet it does. In fact, nothing matters more.| Psychology Today
Margee Kerr spends her evenings watching people melt down at one of the country’s most popular haunted houses. In her new book, she shares what really scares us, why we love it, and how pros like her stay a step ahead of us.| Psychology Today
Navigating a divided America with cognitive flexibility.| Psychology Today
The high-stakes science of campaign messaging reveals that success at the ballot box hinges more on how you feel about things than on what you think about them. Is anyone getting it right?| Psychology Today
The most carefully crafted incentives, from cash rewards to social props, routinely backfire. What does it really take to get people to do the "right" thing?| Psychology Today
Those who crave risk or novelty respond to fear differently from others. They see stressors as challenges to master, not threats that can crush them.| Psychology Today
Advice to parents of newly out nonbinary youth and young adults from someone who has been there.| Psychology Today
Research suggests when children and teens develop goal-setting habits, they are more likely to excel in school, careers, and life.| Psychology Today
All humans are born with biological characteristics of sex, either male, female, or intersex. Gender, however, is a social construct and generally based on the norms, behaviors, and societal roles expected of individuals based primarily on their sex. Gender identity describes a person’s self-perceived gender, which could be male, female, or otherwise.| Psychology Today
Anxiety is both a mental and physical state of negative expectation. Mentally it is characterized by increased arousal and apprehension tortured into distressing worry, and physically by unpleasant activation of multiple body systems—all to facilitate response to an unknown danger, whether real or imagined.| Psychology Today
The right words to avoid defensiveness and maintain dignity.| Psychology Today
Self-control—or the ability to manage one's impulses, emotions, and behaviors to achieve long-term goals—is what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. Self-control is primarily rooted in the prefrontal cortex—the planning, problem-solving, and decision making center of the brain—which is significantly larger in humans than in other mammals.| Psychology Today
