Does Botox make you appear emotionless? It’s not that bad
Research shows that after subtle use of Botox others can still recognise the way you feel.
Social life
Social life
Share your new year’s resolution with friends or keep them to yourself?
Sharing goals with friends may lead to fewer accomplishments for some people while more chance of success for others.
Reading emotions from faces can reveal your own feelings
Recognising emotions is an important skill that helps us in social encounters. But how you feel yourself affects how well you can do this
How to respond lightning-fast during a conversation
Even though preparing words and sentences takes a long time, people usually respond very quickly in conversation. How is that possible?
Not ready to get back to normal? How to deal with social anxiety
Are you anxious about joining in social events again, or do you simply enjoy solitude?
The new way of working (from home)
Working from home is challenging, but it can teach you to be very efficient by working in short cycles, taking good breaks, and by integrating work and private life instead of separating them.
Longing for touch: now and before Covid-19
Many of us may not give much thought to the sense of touch. Yet two
Too much to sense at once
Imagine that every detail you see, hear or smell triggers your thoughts simultaneously. From every tiny inscription on the packaging to all the massive sales signs, from a nearby whisper to the distant traffic… It is all too much to sense at once: this is what sensory overload feels like.
Real me vs Virtual me
Nowadays, the anonymization and greater social distance involved in online social interactions appear to facilitate misbehavior and a lack of empathy. Why is it easier to ignore, criticize, or mock people when online?
The embodiment of sex and gender
It is believed that children start to feel their sex identity and express their own gender by the age of three. However, if we consider that gender/sex identity is not something that you build from one day to the next, one question remains: how and when do we start embodying our gender/sex?