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Psychologist, Jeremy Dean, PhD is the founder and author of PsyBlog. He holds a doctorate in psychology from University College London and two other advanced degrees in psychology. He has been writing about scientific research on PsyBlog since 2004. View all posts by Dr Jeremy Dean

When we really love someone, we notice we don't really need to forgive. We take what they do as an opening to dialogue and try to work things out.

Your brain isn't recording reality. It's predicting it. Understanding that one shift explains why psychedelics heal, why therapy matters, and why resistance isn't what we think.

Emotional neglect can leave you feeling numb, overwhelmed, or unsure of your emotions. Why this happens and how reconnecting with your feelings can change everything.

Ambiguous loss is a unique form of loss that society creates no container for, to the detriment of those who experience it. Creating a ritual can help enormously.

The rapid emergence of AI-driven "grief-tech" has fundamentally disrupted the human experience of mourning, transforming the ontological and psychological dimensions of loss. Using the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" as a cultural and philosophical harbinger, this paper critically examines the existential implications of digital resurrection through algorithmic simulacra, or Griefbots. Movin…

In the age of AI, instant answers to our questions are readily available. But columnist Helen Thomson finds that continuing to encourage those delicious flashes of insight that come from your own thoughts may be beneficial both for your everyday life and your long-term brain health

Her abduction at age 14 drew international attention. After her rescue, Smart says she struggled with feeling shame around her body. Bodybuilding has helped her see herself differently.

Making children laugh can build deep emotional connections and soothe their nervous systems, making them more resilient and open to new ideas, a leading child development expert tells us.

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Psychologists study how humans process music. Technology now allows us to listen to music anytime—and this mind-music connection may shape our individual and group identity.

The scientific evolution of affective science has long been constrained by a persistent polarity between biological-nativist theories, which posit hardwired, universal emotional categories, and constructionist paradigms, which frame emotions as emergent, cognitively categorized states driven by prior experience and interoceptive allostasis. The Core Emotion Framework (CEF), developed by Jamel Bul…

Researchers found a powerful alternative to the ‘addiction is a disease’ message.

Whichever emotions we experience the most become habituated, the default state. Something unusual has to happen to switch from avoid to approach motivations, and vice versa.

One small five-word question, asked over and over, can suffocate a relationship without either partner realizing it.

Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum Family vividly represents local culture through its extensive use of the Gaomi dialect. However, in cross-cultural translation, the rendering of dialectal expressions, particularly metaphorical ones, poses significant challenges, as linguistic and cultural disparities often hinder the preservation of their original connotations and cultural resonance. How to accurat…

This study explores the parenting attitudes and coping strategies of parents whose adolescent children have sought care at a psychiatric clinic. Using a phenomenological approach within qualitative research, the study group included parents who presented at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Cebeci Hospital. Data were collected through socio-demographic questionnaires and semi-structured inter…

This paper presents an overview of "Psyche-Civilizational Engineering (WFM-8)," a non-anthropocentric framework that redefines the psyche through the novel axioms of "Consciousness" and "Mind". By utilizing Critical Cutoff Engineering (CCE), we mathematically model the dynamics of anomie and suicidality. We introduce the Overlay Depth Index (ODI) to quantify inverse-phase indoctrination and the P…