Market moves driven more by psychology than fundamentals: Samir Arora
Indian equity markets continue to move between global uncertainty and domestic earnings strength, with foreign flows, crude oil volatility, and ...
Thursday, August 6, 2026
Tag: Psychology
The psychology of the spotlight effect and how it has helped me care less about small social mistakes nobody else even noticed
In a 2000 study by Gilovich, Medvec, and Savitsky, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, participants were ...
The psychology of attention residue and how I have started minimizing it
Imagine this. You’re forty minutes into a piece of work. The thinking is finally clicking, the sentences are starting to ...
Psychology suggests that adult children who are the most loyal to their parents in late life are often the ones who never quite became close to them — the loyalty is the substitute for the closeness that didn’t form, and the visits, the calls, the careful attention are sometimes a daughter’s way of paying for an intimacy that was supposed to have been included
There is a particular kind of adult child who shows up. They are the one who calls every Sunday. They ...
Psychology suggests that the loneliest moment in midlife isn’t a holiday or an anniversary — it’s a regular Wednesday afternoon when you realize you don’t actually know who in your life would notice if you went quiet for a week, and the realization arrives so calmly that it takes another few weeks to admit it counts as something worth grieving
The loneliest moment in midlife, for many people, does not arrive on a holiday. It does not arrive on an ...
Psychology says the loneliest people aren’t the ones living alone, they’re the ones surrounded by family who only ever ask about their health, their schedule, and their weekend plans, but never once about who they actually became
The loneliest people I know aren’t single, isolated, or living alone in studio apartments. They’re the ones who go home ...
Psychology says true love in your 50s and beyond doesn’t look like the version you were sold, it isn’t the spark or the intensity or the certainty, it’s the quiet Tuesday evening you’re tired and a bit unkind, and the person across from you stays in the room without making it mean anything
Saw a couple at the grocery store last Sunday. He was reaching for the oat milk on the top shelf ...
Psychology suggests people who follow through on small promises to themselves aren’t just building habits — they’re constructing the internal evidence that they can be trusted, which is the actual foundation of lasting self-discipline
Self-discipline, when examined closely, turns out to be less a matter of willpower than a matter of accumulated evidence. Each ...
Psychology says the most reliable signs someone is actually not a good person are almost never the obvious ones — they’re buried inside behaviors that look generous, caring, and selfless on the surface, and the reason good people keep getting hurt by them is that their instincts were right all along but the disguise was better than their confidence in their own judgment
You know that feeling when someone seems too good to be true? I learned to trust it the hard way. ...
Psychology says the most isolating part of getting older isn’t having fewer people around you — it’s having fewer people who knew you when you were whole and fast and full of plans, because the version of you that exists in other people’s memory is shrinking at the same rate as the guest list, and one day you’ll be the only person alive who remembers what you were capable of
I used to think the hardest part about getting older would be the physical stuff. The knees that complain when ...
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