Author: Alice Boyes, PhD.

Situational factors including: 1. your current physical environment, and 2. other people’s behaviour exert big effects on your emotions and thoughts. The effects of situational factors on thoughts

Regular readers will know by now that I’m a big fan of “self experiments”. For new readers, psychological self experiments = trying out advice from psychology in your

This is a self development exercise about positive emotions. Grab a piece of note paper to note down your answers (you won’t need to do a lot of

The following are four questions I find useful for understanding people’s behaviour and emotional motivations. Answering them will help you better understand your own motivation and behaviour. I

The VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire. Free Online Questionnaire. The VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire is great tool for understanding yourself better, and understanding the most effective ways to boost

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