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What is Aphantasia?

Aphantasia is a fascinating condition that affects visual imagination, first noted in the 1880s by Francis Galton. The...

📅 November 21, 2024

Cambridge Analytica’s OCEAN scale and voter profiling

The US Federal Trade Commission held Cambridge Analytica guilty of deceiving Facebook users recently. The process also revealed...

📅 December 9, 2019

Nomophobia declared People’s Word of 2018 by Cambridge Dictionary

The UK’s Cambridge Dictionary has recently declared “Nomophobia”, the word that describes the stress and anxiety caused by...

📅 December 3, 2018

2018 National Press Day (NPD) celebrated in November 16

The National Press Day (NPD) is celebrated every year on 16th of November to commemorate the establishment of...

📅 November 16, 2018

IIT Kanpur develops an online tool “TreadWill” to help people deal with mental health issues

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has developed an online tool “TreadWill” to help people cope with...

📅 July 22, 2018

Ministry of Women & Child Development holds first-ever National conclave on Psychological Trauma, Child Protection and Mental Illnesses

The first-ever National conclave on Psychological Trauma, Child Protection and Mental Illnesses was held at J L N...

📅 March 28, 2018

Indian-origin boy Dhruv Garg got top score in Mensa IQ in United Kingdom (UK)

Dhruv Garg, an Indian-origin boy from Wokingham in south east England, in the United Kingdom (UK) has got...

📅 August 28, 2017

Psychological egoism of Hobbes versus Ethical egoism of Ayn Rand

Rand defines altruism as the view that “Any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and...

📅 March 28, 2015

Thomas Hobbes Psychological Egoism

Psychological egoism is the position that we always do that act that we perceive to be in our...

📅 March 28, 2015

Role of Persuasive Communication in Attitude Change

In attitudes and attitude change, psychologists have identified the role of communication in persuading others. There are few...

📅 March 26, 2015

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