Cybertherapy, placebos and the dodo effect: Why psychotherapies never get betterJohn Horgan
Ms. Urban and her assistant declined to comment; Mr. Ellis (who hasn’t Tweeted anything about the fracas since) and Ms. Finke did not immediately return requests for comment. Do you know if this is the beef between the two? Any specifics about what Ms. Finke screamed at Ms. Urban’s...
People who are active, for example, tend to yawn less frequently than those who are less active. Also consistent with the view that yawning produces an arousing effect, yawns are common following stressful events, threats, and increases in anxiety (e.g., Eldakar et al., 2017, Liang et ...
they do not capture fine-grained, temporal patterns of social experience, including interpersonal stress and connectedness. Given that ~84% of youth use mobile devices to connect with people digitally [151] and, on average, spend up to nine hours per day using their phones...
What this means is that space and time are connected – if you move really fast through space, time slows down for you compared to someone who is moving slowly. This is why astronauts – who are moving very fast in space –age a tiny bit more slowly than people on Earth. ...
In particular, two thwarted belongingness items (I feel disconnected from other people, I often feel like an outsider in social gatherings) loaded onto their own factor, which was conceptualized as perceived isolation, and one item (I rarely interact with people who care about me) did not load...
said that if she did not have adequate HIV knowledge, she would doubt her own HIV-positive status. If I am not in my house, [or] they don't see me for two days, they will come and like people who like support me in my community always come to see if I am sick or something. ...
In all honesty reading this makes it sound like it’s trying to give “healthy” people approval to judge who has a mental illness and decide what they need to do because everyone else who has it is scared to even know it. Most people know and can never fully fix it. That’s the ...
It took me a long time to work out that guys can actively make women feel attracted to them based on what they SAY and DO during an interaction. When I worked that out and began doing it, everything changed. Instead of trying to get women to like me, they automatically liked me becau...
Why, then, do people continue to question if addiction is a disease, but not whether schizophrenia, major depressive disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder are diseases? This is particularly troubling given the decades of data showing high co-morbidity of addiction with these conditions [25, ...