What made Thanos a truly great archetypal villain, was that he escaped the clutches of the mustache-twirling two-dimensional cliché villain. Instead, the writers managed to achieve something that appears to elude most other superhero movies: they held up a mirror to the audience and showed us, somebody, we could relate…

There is a hard truth I have faced, that I am sure most of the people reading this will recognize: There are things I will never achieve. My chances of being a professional athlete were pretty much nil from birth. My IQ has undoubtedly limited my ability to fly rockets…

Growing up, video game creator Hideo Kojima often remarked on suffering from profound feelings of isolation, loneliness, and separation. He felt “different,” which made it difficult to connect with others. In a strange irony, many individuals today can relate to this feeling of loneliness, despite living in an increasingly connected…

It was decades after WWII, and while the world was rebuilding itself, psychologists were busy climbing over each other in an attempt to understand how people could commit horrific acts of evil. Was it the uniform? A charismatic leader? The psychology of evil, as it is tantalisingly referred to, certainly…

Is there anything more terrifying than a sea of faces, nodding like drones, drooling at the mouth as their chosen speaker is delivering a feel-good speech? With the upcoming presidential election, serious questions about the role of charisma and popularity need to be addressed. Psychologists have spent well over a…

Clinical Psychology has been shifting paradigms away from a medical model for quite some time. As therapies continue to evolve, it appears axiomatic that the medical, categorical model for protocols is shifting toward an adaptive, evolutionary, and neurologically informed holistic paradigm. But what does all this mean? This shift means…

You won’t like what I have to say, but chances are, you are currently not being particularly reasonable, logical, or sophisticated in your thinking about something in the world right now. It is very likely, in fact, that you are stuck in a self-fulfilling echo chamber of belief about something…

Drawn To The Beauty In Darkness However one may view video games’ legitimacy as an art form, it is difficult to contest that with the rise of blockbuster franchises such as Metal Gear Solid, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil, they have become an integral part of Western culture. As with the rise…

Here are things you can do to recognise and escape the porn trap Terry Crews did a very brave, great deed when in a series of youTube videos he openly discussed his struggle with ‘porn addiction’. In these videos, Terry descries how porn became all encompassing in his life. …