Recently, I see a lot of posts on social media platforms about psychological safety in the workplace, both in Turkey and abroad. It is, now, one of the most important topics in terms of organizational psychology. In one of its articles, for example, Google shared that there are 5 keys…

Remember this: when you lose something outside, you gain something inside. And if what you’ve lost is so precious, don’t think you’ve lost anything… a man can only lose what he has. - Epictetus When we see these two words side by side, we usually feel a burden on our…

Alexander Pope, one of the 18th century poets, once said, “The strength of the mind is exercise, not rest.” said. Much earlier than that, Plato said: “Exercise would cure a guilty conscience.” Today, although the relationship between physical exercise and our psychological health is not very clear in all scientific…

You are participating in an experiment. You and the other participants are shown two pairs of cards; one card has 3 lines of different lengths, and the other card has a single line. All participants are asked which of the 3 lines on the other card is closest to this…

The concept of introversion has a history in psychology. The sciendce of psychology, by its very nature, encompasses (sometimes contradictory) theories and approaches. Introversion is just one of those who suffer from it. There was a time when introversion and extroversion was as separate as black and white, a person…

We have an article on ‘Emotional Labor in Sales Employees’, which we worked with my dear thesis teacher, Cigdem Vatansever, 6 years ago and which was later published in an international journal. In this study, our main theme was “emotional labor”. Emotional labor, in general, can be defined as the…

For the past few years, articles about rumination are starting to appear more often — especially in popular science. Rumination, in its simplest form, is an ongoing repetitive series of thoughts swirling in your mind. …

Psychologist Stanley Milgram’s Authority Experiment is one of the most controversial experiments in psychology. In this experiment conducted in the 1960s, Milgram aimed to see how people submit to authority and how they continue to do it with a sense of duty even if they think what they are doing…

Consequently, I check my emails even during meals, which means I lose the ability to pay attention to my own sensations. The economic system pressures me to expand and diversify my investment portfolio, but it gives me zero incentive to expand and diversify my compassion. Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons…