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Monday 21 September 2020
Psychologist Brendan Kelly shares an extract from his new book, which is about coping with the coronavirus.
Ireland believe they’re mentally in a better place to make history against the All Blacks on Saturday.
The combination of hunger and anger may be a complicated emotional response involving an interplay of biology, personality and environmental cues.
Your stomach’s in knots, your heart flutters – but here’s what happens to your brain when you’re in love.
‘I sincerely apologize for my behavior at last weekends fight event in Dublin,’ says McGregor.
It’s an emotion that there is no word in English for and is often described as the opposite feeling to schadenfreude, writes Dr Keith Gaynor.
It’s not going to be easy but you’re not on your own.
It believes that Facebook is using them to serve more targeted ads to users
That ability has never been seen outside of humans.
And being too nice is one of them…
Crying, but specifically on an airplane.
Suicide is the most preventable cause of death if people will talk and we can listen.
Pain was one of the main reasons that reduced the quality of life for adolescents.
SHORE analyses facial expressions in real-time to determine the mood a person is in, as well as their gender and age.
The study, which altered the content users saw in their news feed in 2012, has come under severe criticism for as it was carried out without users’ knowledge or consent.
For one week in 2012 Facebook tampered with the algorithm to see how it affected users.
Pepper, a robot that can understand human emotions and learn from human interactions, will go on sale in Japan for €1,420.
Boys can sometimes have problems expressing their feelings – we must empower them so they grow into the kind of men our society really needs.
Life is a rollercoaster…
What goes up, must come down.
The book and wearable vest uses sensors and can trigger feedback based on the protagonist’s emotional or physical state.
The “rules” and maschismo that so many boys learn early in life has created a stifling idea of what it means to be a man. But we don’t need to be bound by these narrow ideas, writes Carlos Andrés Gómez.
Ever wonder if your dog really loves you?
Determination, resolve and belief is what you need to overcome your debt problems, says financial expert Liam Croke who has some tips to help.
We’re talking science here, not that you had a big weekend.
Fionn Hamill is a young boy who has Asperger’s Syndrome. Here he explains why he loves the way he is and how he never wishes he was any different.
The qualities we value in a partner when we are young often change as we grow older, writes Kate Burke.
Breast cancer survivor Marie Ennis-O’Connor says living past cancer is more complicated than simply being disease free.
“Human nature can be that way,” said Fergie ahead of Liverpool’s first home tie since last week’s Hillsborough revelations.
Author Robert Greene has written books on how to gain power and keep it – this is how he thinks you can overcome fear…
Strong steely-eyed or gooey inside, what way do you like your politicians?
Recent research suggests that, despite our material wealth, levels of happiness are slipping. In response to this, a movement for social change has identified ten ways to recapture the art of contentment.
PUBS OUTSIDE DUBLIN that don’t serve food will be permitted to open today for the first time since March.
Strict measures will be in place: customers will not be able to sit at or order at the bar, and groups will be limited to six people from three different households, with distancing of at least one metre between each table.
If a pub can implement a distance of two metres, the 105-minute time limit for customers can be waived. All customers are to be off the premises by 11.30pm.
Amidst a rising number of cases in counties around the country, Professor Philip Nolan told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that although people outside of Dublin can go to the pub, “the question is should you, and how often”.
So, with that in mind, will you go to a ‘wet’ pub this week?
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