In Dog We Trust
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Post No.: 0224   Furrywisepuppy says:   Good relationships are key for achieving happiness, and trust is probably the most important aspect of any kind of relationship – it’s more important than being attractive, funny and so on. Most relationship … Read More

Pseudoscience Masquerading as Science
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Post No.: 0223   Furrywisepuppy says:   Pseudoscience is presented to look and sound a lot like science but it’s not really science at all. For instance, a lot of media stories are about mere speculation (i.e. no actual study … Read More

Mental Health Problems and Comorbidity
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Post No.: 0222   Fluffystealthkitten says:   Comorbidity is the co-occurrence of one or more additional diseases or disorders with a primary disease or disorder of interest; or to simplify the definition for the purpose of this post – comorbidity … Read More

Tomorrow’s World Today Please
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Post No.: 0221   Furrywisepuppy says:   Okay, do you wanna play? Ruff!   Fluffystealthkitten says:   ?..   Furrywisepuppy says:   Okay. Say hello to my little friend!   Fluffystealthkitten says:   …Whoa! So you’ve finally finished building your … Read More

Our Limited Attention and Mental Resources
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Post No.: 0220   Furrywisepuppy says:   We all have limited attentional resources – so we can do several things at once but only if they’re all very undemanding and simple intuitive tasks or tasks we’re specifically skilled at doing. … Read More

How Much Sleep Do You Need to Function Optimally?
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Post No.: 0219   Furrywisepuppy says:   The duration of sleep a creature requires seems to be correlated with its metabolic rate – the higher the rate, the more sleep an animal needs. (But no other animal apart from humans … Read More

Should the Rules Allow Doping in Sports?
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Post No.: 0218   Furrywisepuppy says:   This post relates to Post No.: 0115 but I’ll explore more the ethics regarding doping in sports…   Save for things that would be illegal if done outside of a sport too, what … Read More

Religious Norms on Sex and Marriage
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Post No.: 0217   Fluffystealthkitten says:   Religions have had, and still currently have, a lot to directly say about sex and marriage norms across the world. Different major religions have different fertility rates, and other factors (e.g. poverty levels) … Read More

Behavioural Changes During Adolescence
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Post No.: 0216   Furrywisepuppy says:   Adolescence is an important stage of development – it’s the transition from childhood to adulthood and many changes occur. Physical changes include changes to sleep timing, accelerated bone growth, the voice deepening, and … Read More

Settling Our Differences Via Principled Negotiation
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Post No.: 0215   Furrywisepuppy says:   We often go to war because the will, influence and decisions of a few (i.e. politicians or generals) will sway or override the will of the many, where such political decisions or initial … Read More

Testing Testing, One Two Three Test Yourself
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Post No.: 0214   Furrywisepuppy says:   If you really want to learn something and make it stick then highlighting passages of text is useless unless you look back at those highlights and most of all test retrieving that material … Read More

The Placebo and Nocebo Effects
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Post No.: 0213   Furrywisepuppy says:   A ‘placebo’ is something, whether a compound, procedure or other thing, that brings about a beneficial psychological (and therefore possibly physiological) effect for a patient, that cannot be attributed to the therapeutic worth … Read More

False, Fabricated or Fake News
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Post No.: 0212   Furrywisepuppy says:   Especially amid the relatively new sectors of the media (namely online), but elsewhere too, the news is primarily about garnering eyeballs and clicks, about attracting attention and serving narrow self-interests – not necessarily … Read More

Friendships are One of the Strongest Predictors of Happiness
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Post No.: 0211   Fluffystealthkitten says:   Rather than money – having good friendships or social relationships and support is one of the strongest predictors of happiness. To clarify further, it’s the quality, not quantity, of our social connections that … Read More

Learning to Speak a Second Language
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Post No.: 0210   Furrywisepuppy says:   This post essentially follows on from Post No.: 0132 about how children pick up their first language…   Language is common for all humans, except in rare cases of aphasia caused by brain … Read More

Self-Stigma and Mental Health
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Post No.: 0209   Furrywisepuppy says:   Stigma, when it relates to mental health, can be in the form of ‘social stigma’ (the stigmatising attitudes of society/other people) and it can be in the form of ‘self-stigma’ (an internalised or … Read More

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