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Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?

We all have the natural ability to be resilient, but there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

As the pandemic stretches on, everyone has had to cope with an unprecedented uprooting of social and emotional support networks.

A psychologist and professional ultrarunner weigh in on why we get bored when we run.

Production studio SIRAP has for a second year, supported iconic Australian brand Laminex across two separate creative campaigns, engaged via leading creative agency Ortolan.

Q: I've been diagnosed with benign prostatic hyperplasia -- but the doctor says there's no need to do much about it now. Exactly what is it, and how worried should I be? -- Gary F., Bozeman, Montana

Clinical psychologist George Bonanno, the author of a new book on the science of resilience, says we’re tougher than we might think

Albert Bandura, the world-renowned social cognitive psychologist whose Bobo Doll experiments and theory of social learning transformed the field of psychology, died in his sleep on July 26.

A new partnership between leading mental health not-for-profit, Smiling Mind, and global stationery brand BIC, will support Australians to use informal mindfulness through creativity in their day-to-day lives in a new campaign called 'Smiling Mind Creates' via SIRAP Motion Lab.

Save this story for later. Norman Garmezy, a developmental psychologist and clinician at the University of Minnesota, met thousands of children in his four decades of research. But one boy in particular stuck with him. He was nine years old, with an alcoholic mother and an absent father. Each day, he would arrive at school with the exact same sandwich: two slices of bread with nothing in between. At home, there was no other food available, and no one to make any. Even so, Garmezy would later re...