We are taught from a young age to be nice to people, to treat others as you want to be treated yourself. But there is a downside to being too nice. Can someone be too nice? In a world where all we seem to hear is bad news, it may…
Dealing with guilt is not an easy task, and we all face situations in life where we blame ourselves for something. Guilt is an emotion we experience that is connected to an action in the past whereby we feel remorse or shame. It typically occurs when we have regretted something…
Have you heard about grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism? This distinction is not known by many. We are all familiar with the personality type of the narcissist, but now researchers have defined the narcissism into two very distinct categories: the grandiose narcissism and the vulnerable narcissism. Whilst we might recognise…
What if I told you that there is a bright side of psychopathy? There are, in fact, two types of psychopaths. The majority of us view psychopaths with a degree of fear and trepidation. This is in no small part due to the way the media have portrayed them. Callous,…
Gaslighting abuse is one of the sneakiest tools people with a manipulative personality use to make their victim feel crazy. We often use terminology in our everyday language without knowing where it originated from. For instance, ‘gaslighting’ is a psychological term that describes a form of mental abuse in which…
Anger is an emotion that in some cases can be healthy if it is expressed quickly and the reasons for it understood. But what about repressed anger? Keeping anger inside for long periods of time is not healthy and can have serious repercussions for the person holding it in. Here…
A narcissistic sociopath is someone who has a combination of a narcissistic personality and sociopathic traits. Could there be one in your life? Once upon a time, people were either mad or bad, and that was the level to which we distinguished between the two. Nowadays, there are all kinds…
Social psychology experiments can give us great insight into how we think, behave and act. They help us to explain how our thoughts are influenced by others, how group dynamics work, and how we perceive others. Here are six of the most important social psychology experiments: 1. The Milgram Experiment…
Coping mechanisms are when the person uses certain strategies in order to overcome, get through or manage life’s problems. Many of us have experienced the loss of a loved one, a break-up which devastated us, the diagnosis in our immediate family of a terminal illness, or any kind of stressful…
In general, most of us have a type, that is to say, we look for potential partners with a certain list of characteristics. These might be personality traits such as a sense of humour, kindness, loyalty and intelligence. Or they could be more shallow factors, for example, appearance or finances.…
