MDMA and cocaine are known to speed up people’s perception of time, while LSD can induce a sense of timelessness.
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People often privately feel uncomfortable about bad behavior they see around them but mistakenly believe their peers don’t share their concerns.
Laughter is so fundamental that animals like chimps, rats and dogs share the ability with humans. But in people it serves more serious social functions than just letting others know you’re having fun.
Working for a Machiavellian boss is infuriating, and bad for your mental health. By understanding what drives this personality, you can limit the fallout.
Modern psychologists are challenging classic studies that portrayed humanity as individualistic.
Lovemore Mbigi saw the African concept of ubuntu as a basis of effective human resources management.
A leadership expert offers her advice on how to tackle a surprisingly widespread problem.
Deep psychological factors play a part in obesity, including childhood trauma.
Time is, after all, at the heart of climate narratives.
In a study with people as young as 4 years old, participants underestimated how much others would appreciate their good deeds.
Freud doing cocaine. Psychologist William James experimenting with nitrous oxide. A new history tells of the Romantic rebels who first sampled psychoactive substances.
When it comes to treating people with eating disorders, we may need to look more widely than what studies tell us work.
Jumping in too quickly with ‘Oh yes, that happened to me’ can end up saturating conversation and make your friend feel they were never heard in the first place.
The internet can’t seem to agree on how many ‘types’ of narcissist there are. Some websites list as few three, while others list 14.
If we want fewer accidents, we may want to consider how we as a society value risk-taking and safety regulations rather than blaming it on individuals.
Music therapy offers a flexible and accessible way of supporting wellbeing and addressing traumatic experiences.
The international Hearing Voices Movement has spent the past decades campaigning to destigmatise a surprisingly common phenomenon.
Psychological debriefing usually involves counsellors providing survivors with a single counselling session soon after an event. But ‘talking through’ trauma can over-consolidate painful memories.
Sometimes you have to let your friends know when they’ve made a bad choice in life but there’s a way to go about it.
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Cognitive and Parapsychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Reader in Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
