A study of high school students in China found that individuals who experienced childhood abuse were more likely to display ...

Like other complex behaviors, addiction has to be understood in psychological terms. Marion's story provides a good illustration. Virtually all addictive acts are triggered by emotionally ...

What happens in the minds of people who use the internet addictively? Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand from the University of ...

In addition, addiction is typically marked by urges or craving—wanting a substance so badly it becomes difficult to think about anything else. Intoxication has its own distinctive psychological ...

So why does video game addiction merit little more than a footnote in the latest DSM, the manual for understanding and diagnosing mental illness? Studies have been conducted which look at the ...

Can’t stop scrolling TikTok? That’s not an accident. This video reveals the powerful psychological tools baked into the platform’s design - from variable rewards to hyper-personalized algorithms - ...

Maèva Flayelle and Joël Billieux, both behavioural addiction researchers at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, say their work attempts to expand the focus from the psychology of the ...

5. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté This is the single best work about the psychology of addiction. Maté writes about his time as a physician working with heroin and crack addicts in ...

A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology discusses the dangers of porn addiction and offers a path to recovery using faith and morals. Lead author Stephen Sammut of the ...