Impostor syndrome interests me, in large part because I don’t have it and I have a hard time wrapping my head around it. The doubting one’s abilities part I can definitely understand; it’s the fraudulence aspect that’s harder for me to grasp, so let’s chat about it. What impostor syndrome is Let’s start off by […]
Do You Experience Impostor Syndrome? Read More »
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is enhanced cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT-E. I first heard of CBT-E recently in a post by Burnie of Quash Stigma Not Fat; it was a form of therapy she had done to treat her anorexia nervosa. I
What Is… CBT-E (Enhanced CBT for Eating Disorders) Read More »
What Makes You Stronger by Louise L. Hayes, Joseph V. Ciarrochi, and Ann Bailey uses an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) approach to support greater psychological flexibility. The authors write, “This book offers you a radical premise: Trying to control the wrong things brings loss of control. If you try to control how you think
Book Review: What Makes You Stronger Read More »
Intelligence (the kind that’s measured on an IQ test) is one kind of human ability. Its importance sometimes gets overinflated, but other times, it seems to get framed as a negative thing. So, how much does intelligence actually matter? Intelligence and IQ tests There are all kinds of different human abilities. The psychological construct of
How Much Does Intelligence Matter? Read More »
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is moral typecasting. Moral typecasting is a concept first described in a 2009 paper by psychologists Kurt Grey and Daniel Wegner. Not everyone agrees that it’s actually a thing, but it’s an interesting idea. It involves casting people
What Is… Moral Typecasting Read More »
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is concept creep. The term concept creep was first described by psychologist Nick Haslam in a 2016 paper. He wrote that there’s been semantic expansion (i.e. expanded definitions) of words representing various phenomena, so those words now encompass
What Is… Concept Creep Read More »
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is cognitive mapping, the creation of mental maps for navigation. Some people are star navigators, while some can’t find their way out of a paper bag without a GPS. The reason for that likely has a lot to
What Is… Cognitive Mapping Read More »
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week, we’re going to look at the psychology behind selfies. Smartphones and social media have given rise to the age of the selfie, which was the 2013 Oxford Languages Word of the Year. Back in the not-so-distant day, selfies just
What Is… the Psychology Behind Selfies Read More »
Self-sabotage seems like it should be a pretty unnatural thing to do, but that’s just not the case, so I thought it would be interesting to chat about it. And since I scheduled this post, my friends Cynni Pixy and Doriondori also posted about self-sabotage, so good timing. What self-sabotage is Self-sabotage involves getting in
Do You Tend to Self-Sabotage? Read More »
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is rejection sensitive dysphoria. You may have heard of rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD), perhaps in the context of ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder). I was going into writing this post thinking that it was a well-established thing, and I
What Is… Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Read More »
