You talk the talk and believe you’re an open book, but emotional availability runs deeper. Practicing real openness challenges our intuitive understanding of the concept.

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Psychologists have long considered how a tendency towards irrational thinking or particular personality traits might predict peoples’ interest in conspiracies. Yet these individual factors do not ...

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Psychologists have long considered how a tendency towards irrational thinking or particular personality traits might predict people's interest in conspiracies. Yet these individual factors do not ...

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Over time, attachment theory has become a popular concept. It is a very useful way to understand our relationship behaviours.