psychology

Personal Perspective: What if trust issues are not really about other people, but about losing trust in yourself in relationships?

ObjectiveTo examine whether psychological resilience and psychological distress serially mediate the association between fear of disease progression and quality of life (QoL) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).MethodsThis cross-sectional study enrolled 212 patients with CHF admitted between June 2023 and June 2025. Assessment tools included a demographic questionnaire, the Fear of Progr…

IntroductionFacial feedback mechanisms can modulate affective states. A series of clinical trials have shown that injection of botulinum toxin A can improve the symptoms of depression, probably via the disruption of proprioceptive afferences from the glabellar region to the brain. In extension of this research, we developed a physiotherapeutic program for the facial rehabilitation of wellbeing in…

Adolescents who display ADHD-like difficulties but remain undiagnosed occupy a diagnostic borderland in which medical, social, and institutional expectations collide. In the Swedish context, where rates of diagnosed ADHD have risen sharply, this constitutes an understudied and increasingly marginalized group. Drawing on Mead’s concepts of the I and the Me, the study explores how ten Swedish adole…

IntroductionDirect-acting antivirals (DAAs) have dramatically changed hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment, by achieving high virological cure rates and a reduced percentage of adverse events compared with previous treatments. Despite this, long-term psychiatric and quality-of-life (QoL) outcomes after viral eradication remain insufficiently understood. This study provides an 80-month follow-up of a…

IntroductionSensory processing abnormalities represent a high-impact clinical feature in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Sensory alterations can be classified by modality and behavioral responses to stimuli. The literature presents conflicting results regarding the association between the sensory profile and other clinical elements. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the…

BackgroundFrontline hotel employees in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) routinely suppress authentic emotions to meet organizational display rules—a process known as surface acting—associated with burnout, emotional exhaustion, and diminished well-being. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), adapted within a collectivist, Buddhist-informed cultural framework, offers a theoretically g…

Food addiction and binge eating disorder show striking clinical overlap that current diagnostic frameworks do not fully capture. In binge eating disorder samples, Yale Food Addiction Scale-defined food addiction has been reported in roughly half of participants. Higher symptom severity is associated with greater impairment. Within this overlap, clinicians frequently observe a subset of patients w…

A nationwide survey reveals that eating meals at irregular times is tied to a higher likelihood of depression. Dietary diversity can cushion this effect, while regularly skipping breakfast amplifies the connection between sporadic eating schedules and low mood.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-47785-z Modulations of the P3b effect as a function of bilingual language experience

My findings provide behavioral validation for the framework’s central claims: that emotional operators vary in activation strength, that entanglement constrains psychological agility, and that individuals exhibit predictable scaling patterns based on their operator architecture. This document does not try to convince you to take the Core Emotion Framework (CEF) as granted empirical approved, but …

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

This essay examines a specific and undertheorized structure of social behavior: the public elevation of victims as a mechanism for managing internal inferiority. Drawing on the RISON Theory (Reflected Inferiority in Social Attack and Narrative; Kertusha, 2026), the essay argues that what is here termed victim love the performative, public, and selective defense of those who suffer frequently func…

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.

Founders often succeed because of traits like ambition, novelty-seeking, and risk tolerance, but those same strengths can create burnout without structure.

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.

The term "performance culture" is currently applied to two fundamentally incompatible management systems. One is rooted in evidence. The other one is management by fear, disguised.

The average person works 80,000 hours over the course of their career. Ideally, that time should be fulfilling, well-paid, and spent doing things that make the world a better place. Of course that’s much, much easier said than done. In an increasingly fragile job market made still more fraught by AI, there’s no longer such […]

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.

People with a conspiratorial mindset don't always spin elaborate plots when faced with ambiguity. Instead, a new study suggests their worldview leaks out through specific, suspicious word choices and complex sentence structures.