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New research finds a link between childhood trauma and a reduced engagement with healthcare services later in life.
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After six weeks of measuring their food waste, surveyed households found it easier to cut down.
Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman made his mark in many fields (1934-2024).
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Remembering his immense contributions to psychology and economics.
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Here’s what to look for when you’re browsing for apps.
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Raising children with behavioural, developmental or learning difficulties can also make parenting more challenging. So how can parent training help?
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It can be easy to speed, even without meaning to. Here’s why and what you can do about it.
Strategies like setting SMART goals and enlisting social support can help turn resolutions into habits.
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Resolutions are like goals and putting time into planning your resolution can increase your success. Using scientific strategies can increase your chances of sticking with your resolution.
Parents with ADHD may have challenges, but also strengths, particularly when their child also has ADHD. In these families, parents may have more empathy and tolerance for their child’s difficulties and may be able to play more effectively with their child.
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Parenting with ADHD presents unique challenges but also strengths. By using strategies for managing ADHD, and seeking resources when needed, parents can create a positive and fulfilling family life.
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A Senate inquiry has found Australian students need specific instruction in how to behave.
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Parents may be familiar with this scenario: a child is well behaved at school and polite to their teachers but has a meltdown at home in the afternoon.
Football is among the largest employers in Ghana.
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Most Ghanaian footballers have poor levels of financial literacy and financial behaviour.
Suicide was recently decriminalised in Ghana.
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Suicide in Ghana is regarded as taboo for most families.
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Grumbling children and teenagers can be so annoying. But it is important to try and decode their complaints.
The microbiome functions as an ‘invisible organ’ but it often makes its presence known by emitting sounds and smells.
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The microbiome and its signature smells are crucial for most organisms, whether human, insect or plant. The silent signals sent by the microbiome are essential communications that influence behaviour.
Funerals are a major part of Akan culture.
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Gender plays a major role in how mourning is done by the Akan ethnic group of Ghana
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak speaking at the COP27 UN climate change conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
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Research found people were not confident about the government’s leadership in meeting net zero.
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Do competitive, market-like interactions encourage immoral behaviour? A study of 18,000 people in 45 experiments shows there’s no simple answer.
Heat pump sales in the UK are lagging behind the rest of Europe.
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The UK is next to last in Europe for heat pump sales – psychologists explain why take up is so low.
We do not laugh at the other’s suffering or distress; we react to the other’s surprise, incongruity and bewildered expression, having deciphered that he or she is not in distress and has not really hurt themselves.
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A clinical psychologist explains what has the potential to trigger our usually well-meaning laughter.
Bipolar disorder numbers are rising in Ghana
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Mental health still carries significant stigma in Ghana.