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Finding Joy: How Leisure Activities Can Improve Lives

January 1, 2026

People with schizophrenia often struggle with daily life. But leisure activities can make a big difference. These activities can boost well-being and improve quality of life. A recent study aimed to create a tool to measure how people with schizophrenia engage in and enjoy leisure activities. The t

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Mental Illness: A Smooth Slide or a Sharp Divide?

May 25, 2025

Psychosis is a serious mental health condition. It can cause people to lose touch with reality. This can happen in many ways. For example, someone might hear voices that others do not. Or, they might believe things that are not true. These experiences are often called hallucinations and delusions. B

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Measuring Men's Views on Sexual Aggression: A New Tool

April 14, 2025

The ASAW scale is a new way to measure how men feel about sexual aggression towards women. It's designed to help understand the role of these attitudes in sexual violence. The scale was created by asking men to judge how wrong it would be to act aggressively in various sexual situations. The goal

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The Power of Perspective: How Future Thinking Boosts Leadership Skills

March 21, 2025

A study looked into how future thinking impacts leadership skills. It found that the ability to step back and view situations from a distance can greatly improve leadership effectiveness. This concept is known as temporal self-distancing. It is the ability to mentally detach from the present and

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A New Way to Measure Self-Discrepancy After a Stroke

February 21, 2025

After a stroke, people often feel different about themselves, which can lead to depression and a lower quality of life. This change in self-perception is called self-discrepancy. Usually, this is measured using a complex scale called the Head Injury Semantic Differential Scale (HISDS-III), which com