Hoarding can start in childhood – here’s why early intervention is so crucial for all age groups

Hoarding can start in childhood with no trigger, or later in life after life events such as relationship changes.

Victoria Ruby-Granger, Lecturer in Psychology, De Montfort University • conversation
April 16, 2024 • ~7 min

Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can change your relationships and how you see yourself

Words have power, and what vocabulary you have at your disposal to describe your relationships with other people can shape what directions those relationships can take.

Georgi Gardiner, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the University of Tennessee Humanities Center (UTHC), University of Tennessee • conversation
Feb. 12, 2024 • ~10 min

Secure attachment to both parents − not just mothers − boosts children’s healthy development

Psychologists have long focused on the importance of a secure attachment with a mother for healthy child development. A new look supports the value of attachment – but it doesn’t have to be with mom.

Carlo Schuengel, Professor of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • conversation
Nov. 2, 2023 • ~10 min

Caring, confident dads have structurally different brains – new research

You my be able to spot a committed dad from the size of his hypothalamus,

Pascal Vrticka, Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Psychology, University of Essex • conversation
Nov. 8, 2021 • ~7 min

Your dog's nose knows no bounds – and neither does its love for you

Dogs process the sensory world very differently than humans, but love in a way that is entirely familiar.

Ellen Furlong, Associate Professor of Psychology, Illinois Wesleyan University • conversation
Oct. 26, 2020 • ~6 min

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