Three screenings at this year’s Göteborg festival will ‘transform the audience’s state of mind’ with a live hypnotist on stageThe Göteborg film festival is no stranger to stunts. It has previously featured screenings for a single audience member at a N…
Life rebooted: why ‘pruning’ friends has been so common during the pandemic
People have become ‘more insular and bonding-oriented’ amid Covid, and now many aren’t sure how to start rebuilding their social livesPruning is usually a technique applied to roses in winter, but more recently the gardening term has been cropping up w…
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still canWhen he was nine years old, my godson Adam developed a brief but freakishly intense obsession with Elvis Presley…
The pandemic has allowed us to see so much. What will we do with our newfound clarity?
From government systems to family units to our own psyches, the pandemic brought revelation. What will we change?A retreating ocean is often the first sign of a tsunami. The water along the shoreline is dragged back dramatically, exposing parts of the …
First, do no harm: An argument for a radical new paradigm for treating addiction
Ars chats with author Maia Szalavitz about her book, Undoing Drugs
気候変動の影響で「未来を恐れる」若者が増えている：心理学者が語る異常気象とメンタルヘルスの関係
加速する気候変動について研究者が10カ国の若者に調査したところ、「未来が怖い」「人類の未来は絶望的」といった回答が半数を超えた。重大な自然災害に晒されることで未来に対する恐怖感が生まれるばかりか、失われたものや消えつつあるものを思って喪失感を覚える「エコロジカル・グリーフ」も深刻化している。こうした現状について、今回の調査報告の共同執筆者でもある心理学者のスーザン・クレイトンに訊いた。
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People are thinking about you…
…about as much as you think about them—but they don’t think you’re a mess. Researchers on the “thought gap” and the “beautiful mess effect”. From the first link:
Across eight experiments involving over 2,100 people, social psychologists Gus Cooney, E…
Being an only child made me fascinated by siblings – and means I’ve had to learn to share my life
My debut novel is full of the brothers and sisters who were absent though my childhoodPeople often ask me about my brothers and sisters. They have read my debut novel, Girl A, and they expect to find my own family, encrypted in the fiction. There are s…
“Good vibes only!”
What is spirtual bypassing. “Wellness culture, which often perpetuates ideas of toxic positivity and permanent optimism, is sometimes a driving force behind spiritual bypassing. It teaches people that they cannot be well or healthy unless they are able…
Always have Tetris on your phone
Tetris is not just a fun diversion, but also has remarkable trauma-fighting properties. Playing Tetris within 24 hours of a traumatic event has been found to significantly reduce the likelihood of intrusive memories, and the game has also been used as …