Why Positive Mantras Make Some People Feel Worse (M)
Positive mantras like “I am a lovable person” have long been a staple of self-help books. But do they work?
Positive mantras like “I am a lovable person” have long been a staple of self-help books. But do they work?
A study finds that changing your mindset during learning directly impacts what you recall.
The switches bilingual people are continuously making between languages may account for some of the cognitive advantages.
Adapting to brain injury requires a lot of hard work, repetition and training.
About 40 percent of people in this study reported that they were happy living alone.
This simple change makes the reader feel close to the author and better able to visualise the message’s meaning.
The study analysed how contestants on the British TV show ‘Mastermind’ blinked under pressure.
You can empathise more accurately about a declined invitation by imagining the roles are reversed and you are receiving the rejection.
Antidepressants only work for around 50 percent of people.
Around 3 percent of people will develop bipolar disorder in their lifetime.
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