Psychology Blog

My blog on psychology

October 2025

Greediness is a natural human tendency,
but is it bad?

By Ruochen Fu

How long were you genuinely happy after experiencing something good, like a long-awaited item you finally saved enough to get?

The phenomenon called “Hedonic Adaptation” is a natural process in every human’s brain in some ways causes all men to always be “greedy”, ...

The response of happiness and hedonic capital to a negative shock to the flow of psychological resources

Published on 31st of October, 2025 at 23:59:48 Singapore Standard Time

February 2026

Are kindness genuine gestures of gratitude, or
are they just performative and transactional?

By Ruochen Fu

Are kindness practices and prosocial acts that are done to benefit the society genuine gestures of empathy and compassion? Or are they just performative and transactional? ...

Published on 2nd of February, 2026 at 11:19:37 Singapore Standard Time