A few decades ago, the discipline of psychology witnessed a new wave spearheaded by Martin Seligman, which focused on factors such as happiness, strength, wellbeing, and positivity...
The Psychology Musings
We look at Psychology not as a ‘science of cure’ but a tool for exploring possibilities, inspiring optimism, and making powerful contributions to society. How? By reading human mind. Want to have a look? Lets go!
Exploring the Effects of Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
In many countries, homosexual individuals face discrimination and injustice every day. Even though there is an increasing acceptance of homosexuality in society and greater visibility in the media and public, individuals who identify as anything other than straight, often struggle to find acceptance and equality.
The Courage to be Vulnerable
What do you think the word ‘vulnerability’ means? While vulnerability is commonly mistaken for weakness, it is in fact a phenomenon that indicates the highest order of strength.
Digging into the Psychology of Freebies: The Hidden Price We Pay
The word ‘Free’ is a crucial agent that motivates people into making decisions. In the holiday season, many of us would have found ourselves shopping in supermarkets or online stores. Their major draw is lucrative deals and freebies. In simple words, a freebie is something that one gets for free. i.e. without paying any cost for it.
Elder Abuse: A Psychosocial Perspective
According to the well-known Sanskrit phrase, “Matru deva bhava, Pitru deva bhava”, we must consider our mother and father as God. We like to believe that in India we have a culture ...
The Psychology of Media Trials: From Activism to Vilification
We are all unique individuals. Our perspective of the world is often shaped by an interplay of our personalities, temperaments and experiences. Among the influences on our world view, media...
Choices and Decisions: The Lesser the Merrier?
Imagine you need to pick up ice-cream from the grocery store. Once you arrive at the store, you are struck with many different varieties of ice-cream. You are dumbfounded to know...
Navigating the Trauma of Revenge Porn
In the world of modern dating, keeping the ‘spark’ alive has come to assume a rather challenging connotation. Perhaps even more challenging is when the parties involved don’t have ...
For the Invisible Injuries: Psychological First Aid
What do we do when a friend bursts into tears while sharing a personal struggle with us? How are we supposed to behave if we witness a stranger undergo an accident? What is the first thing...
Eco-Anxious to Eco-Friendly: Overcoming the Fear of Climate Change
Our planet today is experiencing a harrowing mess of symptoms. If a doctor were to examine Mother Earth, the diagnosis would be anything but healthy.Climate change is a reality we must...
Looking for the Politics of Happiness in Contemporary Democracies
Do you ever feel estranged from your country’s politics? Do you choose not to cast a vote, or engage in political discussion because you think your individual voice has no power to bring about...
Beating the (Conun)drum of Life After Retirement
Many of us imagine life after our retirement to be a time for relaxation. A time when we would be free from all our professional responsibilities and live peacefully....
‘Dr. Google’, the Substitute Physician in the Age of Cyberchondriacs
Remember the time you had a headache that wouldn’t go away and through internet surfing, you inadvertently diagnosed yourself with a brain tumor? Fortunately, the headache went..
Walking on the Tightrope of Work-Life Balance
If we were to count the number of times we complained about work stress on an average day, perhaps most of us would qualify for the ‘once per every waking hour’ clique....
The Anger Bubble: To Burst or Not to Burst?
Out of the varied emotional challenges that we encounter on a daily basis, it is perhaps anger with which we struggle to cope the most. It can be assumed that this struggle...
The Smart-cut to Accept Change in Life
Change, as we know it, is the only constant. This is a truth we live with each day, and yet, when change comes knocking on our door, we often feel uncomfortable...
Leadership in Organizations: A Journey Through Time
Leadership, as a concept, is as old as the human species is on earth. In fact, it is as old as life itself. Right from ants to reptiles to mammals to human beings, leadership as...
Cyberfeminism: A 21st Century Outlook
The emergence of digital media has redefined the scope of feminism and allowed women to emancipate socially constructed roles through the use of the internet....
Paying Attention to Biting Your Nails: Stress in Young People
Contrary to the picturesque scene portrayed in movies in which teenagers have their hair down and live light and carefree lives‒ young adults today carry more stress than ever...
Self-Compassion: An Internal Urgency
As consumers of content in the 21st century, we’re slowly picking up the skill of consuming information consciously. We’ve learnt to set timers on our phones that tell us when we’ve exceeded our Twitter...
Embracing the ‘Radical’ in Radical Acceptance
There are several moments in life where we can sense a loss of control: of people, of events, of circumstances. We often tend to prolong our anguish in moments like these by attempting....
Assertive Communication: A Lesson in Valuing the Self
Oftentimes our goals are not achieved through ‘transformative’ decisions that we impose on ourselves, but through small, daily habits that we cultivate. For as long as we can remember...
Why We Struggle to Keep Our New Year Resolutions: The Psychology of Habitude
oftentimes our goals are not achieved through ‘transformative’ decisions that we impose on ourselves, but through small, daily habits that we cultivate. For as long as we can remember...
A Psychological Icepack for the Examination Fever
No matter how many years of exam-giving experience we’ve garnered, sitting down to give another one of those always evokes some stressful emotions. Especially if the exams in question...
Laughing at Yourself: How Far is Too Far?
Often when we go about our daily lives, we engage with the things that truly help us survive, without really pausing to think about them, let alone acknowledge or savour them...
Cyber-surveillance and the Psychological Spiral
Despite the promise of cutting-edge growth and possibility brought to the table by an ever expanding cyberspace, there is little room left for the users to feel safe about the information they share...
The Pandemic of Misinformation
It wasn’t very long ago when the pandemic took our sufficiently topsy-turvy world and gave it a plot twist none of us could imagine. But as plot twists usually go, this one...