The Bystander Effect: Why More Witnesses Can Mean Less Help
It’s one of the more unsettling findings in social psychology: the more people who witness someone in distress, the less
Human Behaviour
Why people behave the way they do: the psychology and neuroscience behind trauma responses, grief, nostalgia, social comparison, bystander behaviour and everyday habits of mind.
Why Trauma Responses Aren’t a Character Flaw: Understanding Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn
Someone snaps at a loved one over nothing, goes completely blank in a confrontation, or finds themselves agreeing to something
The Dopamine Myth: What Actually Happens in Your Brain When You’re “Addicted” to Your Phone
“Dopamine addiction” has become the default explanation for why phones are so hard to put down. It shows up in
Why Grief Doesn’t Move in Stages: What Neuroscience Actually Shows
Almost everyone can name them: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. The five stages of grief have become so embedded in
Why Nostalgia Feels So Good: The Neuroscience of Looking Backward
A song comes on, or you catch a smell that instantly drops you back into a hallway from twenty years
The Comparison Trap: Why Social Media Hijacks Your Self-Worth
You open the app to kill two minutes and close it twenty minutes later feeling worse about your body, your