psychology

“We are actors on the stage of our own theater, and we script a role for ourselves through ‘impression management’”. Speaking from personal experience, I sorely miss my wardrobe. As I prepared for work each day to teach at my...

Harsh words, insults, criticisms, accusations, the absence of expressions such as “sorry” and “thanks”. These are just some of the forms that the most devious and devastating mental abuse can take for a human being. It’s psychological violence. The whole...

Maybe it’s the politicization of the pandemic that allows us to distinguish the US attitude toward safety measures from that of Italy, which has gone from being the “specter of a dystopian future” to being the role model for other...

Posting selfies and pictures gives the illusion that life is fuller than it is. Plucking the high points and foregrounding them suggests an accumulation of ‘content’. An implicit statement that, “my life is fuller than yours, look at all the...

"Unfortunately, it is still common to believe that hypnosis is a form of manipulation ". "Indeed, the opposite happens: thanks to the hypnosis practiced by medical doctors and psychologists, people are often able to regain full control of themselves", Mozzoni...

Psychologists and mental health experts observe that human beings “are wired to be social on such a deep level that social isolation is actually processed similarly to physical pain by our mind”. These facts should really worry us because in...

The tragic murder of JonBenet Ramsey, in 1996, brought the sexualization of childhood into the spotlight and started a debate that has become ever more relevant with the spread of the internet. And that's why we, as parents, must not...