Psyche | on the human condition
Avoiding sadness can backfire, here’s how to turn towards it. Everyone has stretches of sadness. Shifting how you think about and relate to sad feelings could help you through these times. Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.
Blindness transformed my social world, and I changed with it
Sep 18, 2023 · Blindness shredded those connections and my place in that world. Especially disruptive were the sudden and striking changes in my interactions with others. Strangers often seemed anxious around me. Even people I had known for years sometimes avoided me. Other blind people told me of family members who were embarrassed by their blindness.
When does the first spark of human consciousness ignite?
Oct 29, 2024 · Around 24 to 26 weeks’ gestation, the end of the second trimester, the first nerve pathways wire up the cerebral cortex to the body and the outside world. Until this point, virtually no sensory pathways reach the fetal cortex, the largest part of the brain, identified with consciousness in adult humans.
Why teenagers are deliberately seeking brain rot on TikTok
Oct 8, 2024 · Their worlds are filled with much anxiety and uncertainty, both onscreen and off. In this context, for these teenagers, brain rot on TikTok is one tool for tuning out all the stress. It’s a genre of participating in the digital world that enables them to enjoy mindless content, and to turn off their brains for a while.
Why spoken word poetry is so much more than a ... - Psyche
Nov 2, 2023 · Spoken word poetry events are far from your standard poetry reading. Many people today think of poetry as a silent, individual act but it actually started as an oral tradition. Before mass literacy, poems and stories were shared verbally and performed to the public. For example, during the medieval era, it was customary for texts to be ...
Why deepfakes pose less of a threat than many predict
Oct 24, 2024 · According to these commentators, tools for generating ‘deepfakes’ – highly realistic synthetic images or recordings – threaten to induce widespread deception and, over time, pervasive distrust of seemingly reliable footage. If lifelike videos can be conjured up at will, then such footage is no longer good evidence.
Introverts are excluded unfairly in an extraverts’ world
Jul 29, 2020 · The overabundance of extraverts in managing and recruitment roles also decreases the likelihood of introverts winning promotion due to what’s called the ‘similarity bias’ – our tendency to prefer people who are similar to ourselves. This is not only unfair to introverts, it’s to the detriment of organisations.
How to get to know all (the parts) of you | Psyche Guides
Jan 25, 2023 · Core Self: these are your qualities of compassion, curiosity, calmness, confidence, connectedness, clarity, creativity and courage. Protective parts: the proactive parts of these are your managers. They like to manage your life to make you look good; they often use that ‘should’ voice inside your head.
How to decide whether to take antidepressants - Psyche
Feb 2, 2022 · In general, the more depressed you are, the more likely you are to benefit from antidepressants. Other markers of a more severe depression include a complete lack of pleasure, feeling emotionally numb or ‘cut off’, agitated, or being markedly slower than usual in your thoughts and movements.
How to sleep when you’re a perfectionist | Psyche Guides
Oct 2, 2024 · Make time to worry on purpose. As a high achiever, you’re skilled at ignoring worries and staying focused through the day. That’s why your brain takes the only chance it has to raise worries at night. Counter this by setting aside a specific 10-minute window in the day to note down your worries. Try sleep compression.