The trick is changing our actual behaviour, as well as our intentions.
It’s easy to get hot and bothered during a family Christmas. But the science of gratitude can help you not only cope, but enjoy, the festive season.
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If your family Christmas usually involves annoying relatives and unwanted presents, here’s how to be grateful and actually enjoy what the festive season brings.
It’s the thought that counts…
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A scholar who studies consumer decision-making explains just what it is in the human mind that makes people susceptible to nudges toward one behavior or another.
The holidays for many are not always about joy. Grief is a significant part of the holidays for those who have lost loved ones in the past year.
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Grief has been thought to present itself in five stages, but newer studies into how people process grief shows that, in many ways, it never ends. Grief can be especially powerful at the holidays.
The Santa myth tells us more about adults than children.
Dale Palmer prepares his home in NSW for the bushfires. The decision to stay and defend one’s property requires a person to be mentally, as well as physically, prepared.
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In catastrophic fire conditions, leaving early is the only safe option. But in other conditions, one thing that’s often overlooked in decisions to stay or go is how mentally tough you need to be.
Young adults and people living in the inner city are among those most likely to be lonely, according to the ABC’s Australia Talks project.
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Loneliness is a bigger cause of death than a poor diet, obesity, alcohol consumption, and lack of exercise, and it’s on a par with heavy smoking. So let’s get talking about it.
When you’re looking for a destination, you might need to cut down the volume.
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Do you ever find you suddenly need to turn off the radio so you can concentrate on what you’re doing? It’s because you only have a finite amount of attention, for particular types of tasks at least.
We like to narrate our lives in terms of the challenges we’ve confronted and the setbacks we’ve overcome.
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We like to think there’s a silver lining to tragedy – and this may be influencing both how studies on post-traumatic growth are constructed and how subjects are responding.