PsychologusI am a Clinical Psychologist and a Lecturer of Psychology at Government College, Renala Khurd. Currently, I teach undergraduate students in the morning and practice psychotherapy later in the day. On the side, I conjointly run Psychologus and write regularly on topics related to psychology, business and philosophy. I enjoy practicing and provide consultation for mental disorders, organizational problems, social issues and marketing strategies.
ChatGPT is an LLM-based chatbot that took the world by a storm in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022. People ranging from professionals to students of all kinds began using the chatbot to ask for suggestions, improvements in assignments, conducting research and various other tasks. Yet, while academia and medicine grappled with the […]
Running a successful business requires an individual to be flexible, deliberate and have no short amount of grit. One might have to operate in different industries, roles, and circumstances, and the qualities that help one person succeed may be less useful (even counterproductive) in another. Psychology has identified several personality characteristics that can shape how […]
A common perception is that when we witness a crime, our minds simply record what happened and store it for later. But memory does not work like a video camera. Understanding eyewitness memory requires following its journey from perception and encoding to storage, retrieval, identification, and eventually testimony. Because these processes can influence investigations and […]
Nightcrawler is a curious film that exhibits how society sometimes allows truly reprehensible acts to not only escape justice, but even be the cause of future success. The film achieves this by portraying a figure, Lou Bloom, as an awkwardly charismatic, morally and emotionally detached individual obsessed with ‘winning’ the lottery and, in the end, […]
Freud’s Seduction Theory was an early explanation of the psychogenic origins of hysteria. Developed during his investigations of hysterical patients in the 1890s and presented most explicitly in The Aetiology of Hysteria (1896), the theory proposed that hysteria could be traced to sexual experiences occurring before puberty. Freud’s claim was more specific than the modern […]
What is an ISTJ? ISTJ is one of the sixteen personality types described by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). These individuals with the ISTJ personality type tend to prefer situations and decisions which they have experienced before and usually use a logic-driven approach to predict events, problems or outcomes. Due to this, they can appear […]
Howard Gardner (1983) introduced the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) in Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Through this radically new way of seeing intelligence, Gardner challenged the traditional view that intelligence is a single, measurable ability reflected by IQ tests. Instead, he sought to explain the wide variety of human talents observed […]
People often ask whether narcissists are born or made, whether poor parenting is to blame, or whether traumatic experiences create narcissistic personalities. The complete story, however, is more complicated than that. The Short Answer:Modern psychological research suggests that narcissism does not develop because of a single event or cause. Instead, it appears to emerge through […]
Few fictional characters are as widely regarded for their manipulative abilities as Light Yagami. Throughout Death Note, he deceives seasoned detectives, evades international law enforcement, recruits devoted followers, and orchestrates elaborate plans that unfold over months or even years. Yet describing Light as simply “manipulative” does little to explain how he achieves these outcomes. His […]
Most interpretations of Obsession focus on the supernatural elements of the story. However, I believe the film’s true horror lies elsewhere. Obsession targets the age-old longing of magical cures to set our insecurities right. The film asks whether one can actually handle the responsibility of a magical cure (the wish) to insecurities surrounding relationships, without […]