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September 16, 2025/Brain & Nervous System

Earworms: Why Certain Songs Get Stuck in Your Head

‘Tune wedgies’ can play on repeat due to your brain’s storage and operating system — and something known as the phonological loop

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September 15, 2025/Mental Health

How the Halo Effect Can Shape Your Opinions of People

When someone has a quality or trait you admire, you may assume they have other unrelated positive qualities, too

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September 10, 2025/Mental Health

How To Use a Feelings Wheel

Start from the center ring and work your way out to more defined, specific emotions

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September 9, 2025/Mental Health

What Motivates You? Understanding Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

This theory of human motivation says people seek to meet their needs in a predictable order

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May 5, 2025/Mental Health

35 Positive Affirmations To Say Each Day

Speaking, thinking or writing these affirming statements can help boost confidence, reduce anxiety and overcome self-doubt

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April 28, 2025/Mental Health

What Are Intrusive Thoughts?

These unwanted thoughts, images or urges are often violent, disturbing and not aligned with your values — but they don’t mean you want to act on them

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January 23, 2024/Mental Health

How the Grey Rock Method Can Protect You From Abusive People and Toxic Interactions

Like a boring ol’ grey rock, the goal is to be unresponsive and uninteresting to dissuade a harmful situation

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January 22, 2024/Mental Health

9 Signs You’re Dealing With a ‘Narcissist’ (and Why That’s the Wrong Word to Use)

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition, not an insult

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August 1, 2023/Mental Health

Tap Into Your Dark Side With Shadow Work

Recognizing your shadow self is about becoming a whole person

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July 5, 2023/Sex & Relationships

Friend or Faux: Are Parasocial Relationships Healthy?

Whether parasocial relationships are rewarding or dangerous depends on your mental health

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