Brecken Hunter Wellborn (he/him) is an educator and critic based in Dallas, Texas. He holds a Master of Arts in Critical Media Studies and teaches film studies. His writing and research areas include ...

Their analysis showed that stress internalization, defined as feelings of hopelessness or a tendency to absorb stress, was strongly linked to memory decline across three waves of the study. The other ...

There are few words that really make me cringe, as I’ve pretty much heard it all, but there’s one that still makes my skin crawl, and that’s the F word. No, no, not the four-letter word we hear every ...

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Something not openly talked about or widely addressed in the LGBTQ+ community is how "internalized queerphobia" continues to cause challenges in the lives of LGBTQ+ people. We cannot talk about ...

Woman standing on a scale. (Photo by: Joan Slatkin/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A recent Lancet study of 4060 individuals reported that the pressure to lose weight from family and the ...

We normally think of stereotypes as preconceived ideas we have about other people because of their gender, race, domestic situation, or other social identity. However, we also have stereotypes about ...

Dr. Mariska Van der Horst, associate professor at Vrije University in Amsterdam, presents findings from a study on internalized ageism. As people age, they internalize stereotypes about what it means ...

It’s time to get really honest with ourselves. If you were raised as a girl, you probably have some internalized misogyny: the projecting of sexist ideas onto other women and even yourself, mostly ...