Study found that medical students showed significant improvements in mental well-being across all four measured areas: somatic symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction, and depression, after participating in a short-term yoga intervention.

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Positive psychology, as introduced by Martin Seligman and others, uses an interesting metaphor: therapy helps move people from negative states (-10) up to baseline (0), while positive psychology explores the path from baseline to flourishing (+10). Once we’re okay, how do we move beyond neutral?

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A thought-provoking series that explores the depths of the human mind! 🧠 'Severance' explores themes of memory, dissociation, psychological pressures, and manipulation within corporate culture while presenting moral dilemmas regarding personal identity and individual choice. #TVShowRecommendation

The cycles of addiction illustrated in the following animation. Understanding the roots of addiction and the significant role dopamine plays can help us provide reassurance and support to those in need. #AddictionAwareness #Support

It's essential to teach children how algorithms work and encourage them to click on positive content to get more of it.
#PositiveContent #AlgorithmEducation
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Digital culture: emojis, hashtags, online rituals, community-specific jargons. Explore how internet memes shape and stabilize online communities, especially conspiratorial ones. Purely academic, no politics intended! Link to article: rb.gy/kle2se

#DigitalCulture #InternetMemes #OnlineCommunities

It took me a while to wrap my head around 'Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases' by Tversky and Kahneman (1974). But once I did, I became more aware of how I make my decisions in everyday life. Check out the paper here. 👉 rb.gy/d1acgw
#DecisionMaking #CriticalThinking

Curious how many of you passed this test? It's a fun, yet still relevant challenge even after 26 years! #AttentionTest

Learned two useful techniques on how to work towards beating confirmation bias. Find out more in the video. #ConfirmationBias #CriticalThinking #BiasAwareness #KnowledgeSharing

Recent findings suggest that reducing social media use (SMU) to about 1 hour/day can be an effective, low-cost method to improve sleep and reduce mental health symptoms in distressed youth.
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#MentalHealth #SleepQuality #YouthWellbeing #SocialMediaUse #Research

The Milgram experiment is one of the most famous studies in psychology. It's fascinating to see how people follow orders just because an authority figure in a white lab coat tells them to.
Nowadays, how likely are we to obey someone just because they're wearing a suit?
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I learned about an article last term that debunked the myth of "learning styles." Despite no evidence supporting it, we still cling to this belief. Time to rethink these biases for better learning! 📚 #Education #LearningStyles