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Saturday, August 9, 2025
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Topic: Psychology

‘Everything is abnormal’ at IIT Guwahati, students allege they’re being driven to suicide

IIT Guwahati students say there’s a lack of professional counselling and empathy among teachers, which is driving some to take the extreme step.

Schools in Australia show how happiness apps can improve student mental health

Such apps can have limits, but can work wonders for those who live in countries lacking facilities, or because they simply can’t afford to get professional help.

Freedom of thought is under attack. Here’s how to save your mind

To lose freedom of thought would be to lose something uniquely human.

UGC prescribes skill-sets for students, now a psychology graduate must understand marriage

UGC lists learning outcomes for various subjects, wants institutions to formulate syllabus accordingly. Revised syllabus likely to be in place from 2020-21.

Neuroscience is the missing link that can separate terrorists from non-violent extremists

While joining the IS, foreigners were required to enlist skills and willingness to carry out suicide attacks, but not everyone signed up.

People follow the ‘golden rule’ behaviour if they think they’re being watched

An experiment involving 300 people found that gender, socio-economic status or cultural factors didn’t make as much as a difference than the notion of being observed.

Most people will rebel if they learn they’re being experimented on, even if it serves humanity

Some people pointed to a lack of consent, but the number was not very high. A fewer of them were concerned about unequal treatment.

Why just Indira and Priyanka Gandhi, media must psychoanalyse Narendra Modi too

Several political commentators have compared 'Indira Gandhi’s authoritarianism' with Modi’s 'autocratic and decisive style'.

Delhi family of 11 hanged itself to ‘thank gods for manglik daughter’s marriage’

Psychological autopsy of family says deaths were because of a 'ritual gone wrong', rules out suicidal tendencies among members, aged 15 to 77 years.

The ‘psychological condition’ that binds Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal

Each of the three addresses himself in the third person. Psychologists, in fact, recognise this as a “condition”. It’s called illeism.

On Camera

Dharali floods a wake-up call for IMD, NDMA to buck up—the Himalayan region is vulnerable

If extremely heavy rainfall can cause such damage without a rare event like a cloudburst, it should leave the system working toward India’s disaster preparedness thinking.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Shadow war over India’s defence procurement on social media raises concerns of dodgy & undue influence

One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.