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Personality Psychology
How did psychologists decide that the personalities of billions of people could be captured in just five dimensions? Be…
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Personality Psychology
Openness to experience is one of the Big Five traits, but it means something quite different to psychologists than it d…
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Mental Health
"You're stressed, I'm stressed!" Few Hongkongers are strangers to that feeling. Psychology offers a classic lens on wha…
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Pseudoscience
From 9/11 to the Illuminati, conspiracy theories share a recognisable shape. We trace Michael Barkun's three categories…
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Love & Relationships
Psychology can't tell us what love truly is, but it can show us its parts. Through Sternberg's Duplex Theory of Love, w…
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Workplace
What will work look like in 2030 — how will longer human lifespans, the rise of AI, and globalisation reshape it? Drawi…
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Society & Current Affairs
In turbulent times, so many of us feel powerless. But what exactly is that feeling — and how do we keep it from hardeni…
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Mental Health
Play looks like nothing more than a fleeting bit of fun. Yet psychologists have found it does far more for our mental h…
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Personal Growth
The film Her follows a lonely man who falls in love with an AI. Drawing on neuroscience, we explore what loneliness rea…
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Love & Relationships
The film One Day follows Emma and Dexter across two decades of drifting apart and coming back together. So what was rea…
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