When the covid-19 lockdown started was announced in India, March 2020, the government instructed all businesses to shut down in-office operations — except essential ones. According to the state essential services included all those businesses seen as essential to the day to day survival of the people. In the healthcare…

Cross cultural psychology analyses human beings from different cultural backgrounds to try and mark out the differences and similarities in them. The larger point made in the field is to find relationships between different cultures, although it does not have to be. …

Cognitive Biases and Why we Refuse to Believe the Facts Why do people believe that the earth is flat? Or argue strongly against climate change? Or even continue to hold beliefs which have been proven to be untrue, not only in the face of facts but also in the face of social…

Over the course of the day, one has several dozen interactions with others. No doubt a large chunk of these come under the category of verbal communications. However, there is also a significant portion of communication that happens without words, communication that occurs through gestures, expressions, and other non-verbal forms…

People in the world around us are beset by bad habits. Whether it is more innocuous ones like speaking out of turn or more harmful ones which border on addiction to deadly substances, there is a scientific way to understand what keeps these habits going and what is needed to…

Over the last few years, there has been a rise of far-right governments across the world. All countries falling prey to divisive rhetoric and electing populist leaders were in the past liberal democracies. For this reason, the current situation baffles and confuses: where did all of this polarization come from…

Over the last 300 years, since the industrial revolution took place in Britain, the rapid growth of industry has taken place across the world. Powered by steam and coal, this expansion has led to the creation of vast amounts of wealth for people across the world. At the same time…

Today identity politics is a phrase widely used and rarely understood. In a baffling turn of events, it has come to cover everything from Dalit struggles to allegations of reverse racism. Some allege that this mutilation of the phrase was bound to occur at some point, others claim that even…

You’re going to cross the road. How do you do it? If there are no cars coming, do you stand at the zebra crossing, and wait for the light to turn red? or do you just go for it? Do you look right first before you cross, or do you…