Sometimes the simplest solution to your computer problems is to just restart the computer. Well, in essence that is just what I am doing to this blog. The last time I published something on here was over about 5 years ago and of course I looked through the drafts in here, there were several of…

Someone I respect a lot used to always tell me – ” When in doubt, do the right thing!” If only everything were so easy in life…. I recently had a discussion with a friend for a while about two approaches to decision making, judgments and handling doubts. First of the approaches was to trust…

Is love giving or taking?  Is love talking or listening? Is love physical or emotional?  Is love a pain or a gain? Is love explaining or understanding? Is love happiness or sadness? Is love acceptance or denial? Is love finding faults with others or accepting people with their flaws? Sometimes or rather most of the…

After trying to finish this since the mid of the past semester (thanks to my really busy schedule) I have decided to finally finish this post. Affective forecasting is one of the most interesting topics that I studied about in this past semester. This could also be called one form of cognitive dissonance. To explain…

Ever since I became a psych grad student, I think several times before I write anything. I guess this is because I have begun to look at statistical significance of everything I wish to write about. After spending close to a semester reading articles on various topics in psychology, now, when I look through archives…

Our memories can ruin our experience or make them better. Inspired by Kahneman’s TED talk which I heard a year and a half back and again couple of days back, I can say, I have so many examples in my life where my experience of an event has been completely ruined by my memories. As…

I still am in my creative void phase, but nevertheless here is a song which has always touched my heart. I love Enrique.They say love is just a gameThey say time can heal the painSometimes you win, sometimes you loseAnd I guess I?m just a fool, I keep holding on to youI told you once…

          Feeling of belonging is a very important concept. Consider being in a relationship, where you feel like an alien most of the time or working a job which makes you feel all the time that it is just not what you want to do or, living in a place where you…