Category: Psychology

  • 11 Signs You Might Be an Empath

    by DARA KATZ  | JAN. 22, 2018  LARABELOVA/GETTY IMAGES If you hear “empath” and think, Oh, you can read minds? you actually wouldn’t be too far off. While the trait isn’t exactly cinematic ESP, empaths are deeply attuned to what people around them are feeling—emotionally and physically—and experience those sensations as if they were their own, often without needing to utter a word.…

  • Office Friendships Can Hurt Your Career–A Lesson Learned The Hard Way

    BY ALLIE HOFER Regardless of our specific fields, we all have experience with personal relationships in the workplace. Anywhere from the daily exchange of a cheesy colloquialism to a close friendship cultivated over years of working together, it’s inevitable that the line between personal and professional will be blurred and the two sectors will intertwine.…

  • 5 Ways to Be a Better Worrier

    By  RACHEL BOWIE  | JAN. 16, 2018 We know that worrying can help you live longer, but when anxiety hits (OMG, why do you have three missed calls from your sister?), it can be hard to silence. (She just wanted to tell you she got promoted, sheesh.) These simple strategies can help you put things in perspective—and worry more…

  • The Importance of Emotional Intelligence at Work

    Use These 7 Emotional Intelligence Tips to Be a Better Leader Mariah DeLeon • Guest Writer   Scholars may have coined the term “emotional intelligence” in the early 1990s, but business leaders quickly took the concept and made it their own. According to emotional intelligence, or EQ, success is strongly influenced by personal qualities such as perseverance, self-control…

  • Why Self-Awareness Matters and How You Can be More Self-Aware

    From the ancient Greek Aphorism “know thyself” to the western psychology, the topic of self-awareness has always been an intriguing subject of inquiry of philosophers and psychologists for the last century.   So What is Self-Awareness Exactly? The psychological study of self-awareness can be first traced back to 1972 when Psychologists Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund’s developed…