You can resolve every conflict you have with another person with just a little psychology, one of the most important sciences in human history. Even though it can sound a bit boring or dull, with psychology you can find a way to approach every single social situation with the best tools to properly deal with it. To do that, you don't have to have a PhD in psychology, all you really need is some tricks and hacks in your arsenal. This Reddit thread on AskReddit, which was prompted with the questi…

Now everyone needs therapy

Serotonin is practically medicine.

The end of an era

Relationship problems that set off red flags

There's nothing worse than having an impenetrably bad roommate . They refuse to budge no matter how much you ask them to clean or pay their bills. I feel like I could tolerate a roommate that is bad but owns it. Like yeah, they are never around and don't do much around the house, but they at least don't try to make foolish excuses for their poor behavior. The worst breed of roommate is those who are incompetent but try to justify it with psychological concepts to make it seem like you're the on…

If you've ever felt like you're lying to the world about your abilities, and that you're undeserving of praise, you may be struggling with a little thing called “Impostor Syndrome." According to Psychology Today, “People who struggle with imposter syndrome believe that they are undeserving of their achievements and the high esteem in which they are, in fact, generally held. They feel that they aren’t as competent or intelligent as others might think—and that soon enough, people will discover th…

Are you all snakes, roses and daggers or are you all lions, compasses, and peonies? Because those are completely different personalities…

How is it that someone can be perfectly affable and charming in person, but an absolute nightmare of a human on social media? Why does it feel like we're all walking around in a cloud of paranoia all the time? Why is it hard to tell which information is true and which is fake these days? Psychology buff @g_s_bhogal might have some answers. In a follow-up tweet to an insightful mega-thread of 40 psychology concepts, @g_s_bhogal explained that his goal “is to help people avoid the psychological t…

A full glass sitting halfway off the ledge of a table; A pot over boiling with water; The feeling of your body filling up with buzzing bees—anxiety can come in many different experiences.

One of the benefits of getting older is that you gain some perspective on life and many of the things that have happened to you in the past. This isn’t always an easy thing to do, but it’s an important part of becoming an adult . That being said, it can be possible to take the whole process a little too seriously. Not every childhood memory is an unexplored trauma, even if some parts of social media can try to make it feel that way. This was a criticism faced by Twitter user @jeannakadlec , whe…

With a few surprisingly helpful explanations

Sometimes it really is 'nothing'

Memes for the psych nerds!

Wtf.