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A study explores how many words people use a day, whether women really speak more than men, and whether we’re talking less ...

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Practising Carl Rogers’s unconditional positive regard helps me be more compassionate and less judgmental – of myself too ...

See a city through a visitor’s eyes to capture feelings you’ve lost, or never had – it’s the vicarious construal effect ...

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Does the blank page look unconquerable? Blackout poetry can give you a creative jumpstart. This short video explains how ...

In this lyrical meditation on freedom, Big D contemplates the mysterious, free world outside after four decades in prison ...