In this article, we’ll cover Leon Festinger’s famous theory of cognitive dissonance. In this case, we will focus on an area in which this dissonance is of greater importance due to the damage it causes when poorly managed: that of emotional dependence. Cognitive dissonance is a classic concept in psychology, …

Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize. This psychologist also left us several sentences that invite us to reflect. Daniel Kahneman is one of the few psychologists who managed to win a Nobel Prize.  It was in 2002 in Economics. His great merit was to carry out very valuable studies to …

What is the best way to study for you? Many people study by reading silently, others, on the other hand, do it aloud. If you’re one of the latest, you’re likely to walk around the place you’re studying while reciting what you’ve read or learned. In some cases, you may even …

How to deal with conflicted teenagers? What techniques or tools can we put into practice to help them cope with this stage of life? What makes a teenager conflicted? What does that mean? How to deal with conflicted teenagers? If we refer to rebellion (parental defiance or disobedience, rules, etc.), …

What mark would you like to leave when it’s all over? Sometimes we may feel that we are not in control. It seems that we are a big bus following the indications of the passengers that accompany us on the trip. We make decisions that people around us recommend and we end …

In Jay Haley’s strategic therapy the therapist has a great deal of initiative and needs to identify a number of fundamental aspects. It moves from identifying solvable problems to planning interventions, setting goals, providing feedback and evaluating. Jay Haley intended to go beyond what the moment might dictate and not …

There are exercises to prevent scoliosis that can be combined with braces or surgery. In this article, we are going to suggest some of the exercises for prevention. If done well, you can realign your spine, rib cage, shoulders, and pelvis to achieve a normal posture. However, you will need …

The first step, the first tooth, the first speech. Then comes the doll, bicycle, the first day of school, the first writing, then reading, and so on we keep waiting. We make the journey of life a constant dream and hope, and so we live stuck in the past or …

If you want to catch a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will slip out of your hands; on the other hand, if you let it go, it can land naturally on your shoulder. If we apply this famous phrase to real life, we could compare it …

“This won’t happen to me”, “I drive well, it doesn’t have to happen”, “It’s okay to look at the cell phone for a second”, “I have control”… Let’s think about it: what if we are wrong? What is the price of overconfidence? Are we willing to pay this price? Are …