Albert Alcaine i Peralta
Shouting at children, slapping or shaking them to discipline them repeatedly causes changes in their brains that, in adolescence, make it difficult for them to manage emotions and fear. (more…)
It has always been said that there are questions we can never answer.... Kant said so, in fact, so this goes back a long way. Artificial intelligence might be able to give us a hand, who knows... But not too long ago, an experiment was carried out with hungry, half-decomposed…
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We show empathy when we are able to understand the emotions and points of view of others. This value is the basis of all relationships: the ability to understand emotionally what others experience and to understand things from their point of view. (more…)
In 1953, Roald Dahl published “The Great Automatic Grammatizator“, a story about an engineer who wanted to be an anonymous writer. The day after completing the construction of the world’s fastest calculating machine, he realised that English grammar is governed by quasi-mathematical rules. So he built a fiction writing machine…
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“I’ll be 10 minutes”, “I’m getting there”… I’m sure you’ve heard these phrases more than once… Or maybe it’s you who has uttered them. There are people who always repeat this pattern, arriving late, no matter what the plan is. Is it disrespectful? Let’s have a look… (more…)
Almost everyone who shares a hug is a great comfort, peace… Science has studied its effects and some of them are quite interesting. Science has studied their effects and some of them are quite interesting. How can such a simple gesture bring us so much relief? Why do they comfort…
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In 2013, in the series Black Mirror, the concept of digital resurrection was already anticipated in the episode I’ll be right back. The protagonist used AI-based software to generate new conversations with her boyfriend, who had died in a car accident. Today, it is already a reality, and has become…
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Far from the myth that mothers become absent-minded and forgetful after childbirth is cultural, in fact, the opposite is true: motherhood reinforces mindfulness. So where does this myth come from? Surely, it has been studied that they do feel more distracted when they have no family support. (more…)
Sometimes we can have a reaction that does not benefit us when we feel offended or attacked by another person. It is important to know some tools and approaches so that this does not happen, and to be able to deal with the situation in a way that is more…
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Intense debates and fights between football fans have the same neural pattern: they alter two brain regions that control impulses and seek consensus, hence people in groups sometimes lose their individuality, take risks they would normally avoid and approach strangers with unprovoked hostility. (more…)
Sit and do nothing? If someone suggests such a plan, your mind will probably go to the to-do list or “better things to do”. It’s funny because maybe we have the feeling that the day doesn’t have enough hours to cope with everything we have to do, but when we’re…
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How many times have we looked at someone and exclaimed:“I look so much better! But is this perception real? The moment we look in the mirror, our silhouette is projected in a real and objective way, but the body image we have of ourselves depends on the “glasses” we put…
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Who doesn’t remember those eternal summers of our childhood that seemed to have no end? Those summer holidays that lasted forever and the waiting time between Christmas and summer was eternal? On the other hand, can anyone tell me why, when we get older, time flies by and the weeks,…
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Mike Boxhall was a British psychotherapist and craniosacral therapist with a long career, former president of the Craniosacral Therapy Association (CTSA) in the UK. (more…)
We often assume that chronological age reflects emotional maturity and the ability to cope with different situations, but this is not the case: each person lives and experiences different realities, there is no single way of living life in the same way as there is no single point of view,…
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There is a medicine that costs nothing and is very effective and, moreover, is within everyone’s reach: take off your shoes and step on the ground. The scientific evidence speaks of extraordinary effects for just walking barefoot. (more…)
Taste is the sensation when we taste a food or other substance and put it in our mouth, and is influenced by taste, smell, sight and touch. Taste is limited to the perception that occurs when soluble chemicals come into contact with chemoreceptors on the tongue. After taste, it is…
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Clive Wearing is a prodigious conductor who, following a brain injury, has had his memory “reduced” to seven seconds. Imagine, for a moment, that everything you experience is forgotten in seven seconds. And so on and so forth for the rest of your life. Would we still be ourselves? (more…)
In short, emotional validation is nothing more than communicating to the other person that you are heard and seen: accepting the emotional experience that someone is feeling at that moment and communicating it clearly, in words or actions. (more…)
Do you trust appearances? When we create an opinion about someone based on some physical trait, almost without realising it, this can lead to a misinterpretation of information, which influences the way we process thoughts, make judgements or decisions. When we see an attractive person, we may tend to think…
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