TikTok Myth of the Week: All Your Problems Are Due to High Cortisol
Do sweet and salty foods taste good to you? Is your sleep maybe not the best? Do you have some belly fat? The answer to these questions is probably yes,…
The Most Effective Ways to Combat Psychological Avoidance
According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), more than 40 million adults in the U.S. (19.1%) have dealt with an anxiety disorder in the past year, making it…
Why Cramming for a Test Doesn’t Work, According to Science
Photo: Huelor21 (Shutterstock) Cramming for tests doesn’t work, but that doesn’t stop students from waiting until the last minute to study. Some even believe that reading and reviewing material under…
Defy Parkinson’s Law to Be More Productive
Photo: Lazy_Bear (Shutterstock) Parkinson’s law is an observation that suggests the longer you give yourself to do something, the longer you’ll take to actually get it done. But it’s always…
Start Optimizing Your Stress
Usually when you think about about stress, you’re considering how to manage it or avoid it—or you’re reading about all the bad things it does to your body. But what…
Why Hyper-Independence Can Be A Response To Trauma (and What To Do About It)
The process of recovering from trauma—whether rooted in your childhood or unfolding in the wake of an acute traumatic event like a car accident—is complex and difficult. And especially when…
Teach Your Kids the Difference Between a Real Worry and a ‘Trick’ Worry
Anxiety is hard enough to cope with when you have the life experience to distinguish real threats from imaginary ones. We adults may know that the odds of an alien…
Biorhythms Aren’t Real, But ‘Peaks’ of Productivity Can Be
You know a theory is janky when even its Wikipedia page has “(pseudoscience)” behind its name in the title. That’s the case with so-called “biorhythms,” or periods of 23, 28,…
Use the Two Minute Rule to Stop Procrastinating
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) Even when you’re overwhelmed by looming tasks, there’s an easy way to knock out several of them to gain momentum. It’s called the “two-minute rule” and it…
How to Cope With Misophonia
If there are certain sounds that trigger an extremely negative reaction in your, from rage or annoyance to disgust or even panic, you might have a condition called misophonia. The…