180 Amazing Facts About Psychology

Being happy around people makes you happier.
Convincing yourself that you slept well tricks your brain into believing you did.
The sort of music you listen to influences the way you view the world.
Romantic desire is biochemically indistinguishable from serious obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Phobias may be memories that are passed down through many ancestors by means of our DNA, according to new studies.
No one born blind has ever had schizophrenia.
Being in love lowers your stress by upping your serotonin levels.
It is easier to remember how a story started as well as concluded than it’s middle.
You’ll feel happier spending your money on others and than on yourself.
100 Psychology Facts
People seem to respect items more when they assemble them on their own, which is known as IKEA Effect.
Taking your decisions by thinking in a foreign language can help you be more rational.
Someone who is born blind has not been found to have schizophrenia.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder has been found in around 6% of the population.
Babies also start to process language just like grownups after a couple of days of being born.
Psychologists have also found that the color blue can work as an appetite suppressant.
Allowing yourself to experience the negative emotions of an event in your life might actually help you move past it faster
Writing notes longhand, instead of typing them, helps you learn what you’re notating because writing engages a different part of the brain than typing.
You might learn more by listening to music when you study. Listening to music helps you engage the parts of your brain that help you focus.
Spending money on others makes you happier than spending money on yourself.
Ever get frustrated during a Facebook argument when someone only links to sources supporting their claim, even if those sources are sketchy AF? Called “Confirmation bias,” the idea is that people will always be drawn to and more readily stand by “facts” that confirm what they already believe to be true.
Humans tend to care more about one person than about massive tragedies.
During a crying sesh, if the first teardrop comes from the right eye, that person is crying tears of joy. If from the left, the person is crying tears of pain.
Having a plan B means plan A is less likely to work.
Human behavioral studies indicate that a person who loses a mobile phone experience a fear comparable to a near-death experience.
A hug longer than twenty seconds will produce hormones into your body that makes you trust the individual who is hugging you.
People are franker because they’re emotionally drained. That’s why people mention things in late-night talks.
Chocolate discharges the chemical Oxytocin which is the same chemical your body produces when you are happy.
Happiness, rage, sorrow, anxiety, disgust, and surprise are the six feelings that are uniformly conveyed.
People seem to be happy when they’re kept busy, as this keeps them from worrying about bad problems in life.
A scientist named Thomas H. Morgan discovered that chromosomes had inherited knowledge.
Your brain is doing more imaginative work when you’re sleepy.
It is also found that staying optimistic about the future can powerfully shield people from physical and mental illness.
People who view crime shows and films have consistently overestimated the frequency of crime in the real world.
Your reliance on social media is the product of your psychological system.
There’s a neurological explanation why you thought like your phone was vibrating because there’s absolutely no warning called Phantom Vibration Syndrome.
Some people live their lives as if they were in a reality television show.
Emotional pain is remembered better than actual pain which has a greater influence on your behavior.
If we have a plan B, our plan A is less likely to succeed.
The starting and the ending are easier to recall than the middle ones.
Anything that your mind says has an identical response from the body’s cells.
We would like to break more laws if one law is too strict.
London cab drivers, who need to know every street in London, have an expanded hippocampus that indicates that this area is increasing as you decipher more details.
Our minds are working on making boring speeches more exciting.
You’re conditioned to enjoy the songs you’ve most listened to in high school.
Memories are more like pieced images than precise snapshots.
Researchers are thinking of adding Internet addiction to the general list of psychiatric illnesses.
The brain experiences rejection as physical discomfort.

Psychology Facts About Human Behavior

We might persuade ourselves that a dull job was enjoyable if we weren’t rewarded.
Sugar and fat were pretty good stuff to our predecessors.
Our brain doesn’t think that long-term deadlines are so significant.
Our own local culture and environment can sometimes cause hallucinatory voices.
The average high school student now has the same level of anxiety as compared to the average psychiatric ward inmate in the early 1950s.
Religious rituals, such as prayer, are associated with significantly lower levels of mental issues or psychological discomfort.
There are four major reasons you’re forgetful – failure to retrieve, interference, failure to store and intentional deletion.
Thinking through decisions in a foreign language helps take the emotion out of your thoughts and helps you focus on making a more rational decision.
Need to improve your memory? You need to strengthen you synapses. The best ways to do that are: avoid stress, drugs and alcohol and get plenty of sleep and exercise.
Reading notes aloud (and talking to yourself about the material) helps you learn more.
Playing Chess makes you smarter — it slows you down and forces you to concentrate. Chess also relies on players to think through things from various angles — they must use both deductive and inductive thinking.
Playing with blocks helps younger children with learning because it teaches spatial concepts, as well as physics.
The color blue is an appetite suppressant.
No one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.
You might think it’s the opposite, but announcing your goals to others actually demotivates you and makes you less likely to meet your goal.
Think your personality changes over time? You’re partially right. It’s been proven that your core personality traits don’t change as you age. However, over time your anxiety levels, friendliness and bravery for trying new things can flux multiple times depending on experiences and trauma related to those experiences.
The beginning and end of a story are easier to remember than the middle.
It takes up to five positive things to outweigh one single negative thing.
We care about ourselves more than others, which is why the reward part of the brain lights up when we’re talking about ourselves.
Babies start processing language like adults do as soon as they’re two days old.
Moving their mouths helps babies listen.
The term ‘psychology‘ has been derived from the Greek word ‘psyche’ translating as ‘breath, spirit, soul’ and ‘logia’ that corresponds to ‘study of’.
It takes about 66 days for an average individual to make something a daily habit.
Studies say that individuals who could instinctively use sarcasm to tackle a frivolous question have healthy minds.
Individuals who have a deep sense of guilt are better at identifying the emotions and concerns of the people around them.
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We’re naturally second-minded because other people don’t approve.
Yawning to have someone else’s yawn is a normal phenomenon, despite not feeling exhausted or asleep. One of the myths regarding its infectiousness is that people ‘catch’ it to express empathy.
An average individual’s mind wanders 30% of the time.
Eye pupil rises to 45% when an individual looks at somebody they love.
We often tend to break down knowledge into classes of 3-4 objects in them. The Indian phone number is 984-973-2543. Three blocks with 3-4 bits in each chunk.
During the 7 minutes of neural activity you will have before dying, you will see your memories in a dreamlike pattern.
Having siblings is proven to help with getting along well with peers.
The way an individual treats the employees at an establishment tells immensely about their character.
If you sob out of happiness, the first tear will come from the right eye, but if you cry out of sorrow, it will come from the left.
Food prepared by someone else tastes much better than your own preparation, even when you use the same recipe.
Hearing a single negative thing could damage at least five positive memories.
Studies have shown that consuming food without preservatives will increase I.Q by up to 14%.
You seem to think more about a specific individual than about catastrophic events.
An individual still has 7 minutes of neural activity before he passes away.
Researchers have observed that thinking that something bad is going to happen is less stressful to understand than not understanding how it will eventually wind up.
Men aren’t more entertaining than women: they only make more jokes, they don’t care whether others like their humour or not.
Shy people tell others very little about themselves, but they do it in quite a manner that makes other individuals believe they know them better than they actually think they do.
Our brain size has decreased by 10% since we were hunter-gatherers.
People in blue rooms are also much more productive.
The study showed that information could last longer in the mind of a person evaluated for it than if it were only examined without the need for instant recall.
You are in an endless pursuit of human faces in inanimate objects.
People are much more likely to return a missing wallet if a picture of a child is found inside.
Smart people tend to have fewer mates than the average person. The smarter the individual, the more selective they become.
People who speak two languages can unintentionally change their personalities when they switch to speak from one language to another.
People would rather change the truth than change their views about people.
Being alone is harder for your health than you really believe.
We’re the most imaginative in the night and the least creative in the day.
Being home alone and isolated for a long time is just as bad for your wellbeing as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
People are more likely to blame someone in the case when something negative happens.
Studies also found that people who are in a position of influence and power are very poor in determining other people’s emotions.
People between the ages of 18 and 33 are the highest percentage to have depression in the world.
Studies say that travel improves brain wellbeing and even lowers a person’s chance of heart disease and depression.
Cognitive dissonance is when you have two contradictory values, and you change one to match another.
The broken heart condition is also called stress cardiomyopathy, which could lead to critical, short-term heart muscle dysfunction.
The force of authority may have the same effect on a human as a traumatic brain injury.
People read quicker with longer lines but prefer shorter lines.
Larger groups make worse and more subjective choices than larger groups or people.
If you can’t interrupt the stream of thinking at night, write it down. This is going to put your mind at ease so that you can relax.
Women have half as many pain receptors on their bodies as males, but they have a much greater threshold for pain.
Physically, repetition affects the brain as new associations are made between brain cells.
The maximum number of close relationships/friendships you can maintain is between 50 and 150.

Psychology Facts About Personality

Any relationship born between 16 and 28 years of age is more likely to be robust and long-lasting.
When you feel like you’re low on something like money, you’re obsessive about it.
Feeling as though you are in a TV reality show is considered the Truman Syndrome.
Seeing others favourably shows our positive characteristics, seeing others negatively reveals our negative attributes.
Depression is often referred to as the product of thought. Imagination causes issues that didn’t exist.
Your choices are more logical because you think about another language.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder exists in around 6% of the population.
The sight of water has a very calming and soothing effect on people which makes them experience happiness, calming thoughts and be even more imaginative.
People seem to respect items more when they assemble them on their own, also partially named after the furniture from the renowned store, the ‘IKEA effect.’
One research claimed that a man who was named Billy Milligan had 24 personalities.
Money will buy happiness, but only to a certain extent.
Retrograde amnesia is a disease where you don’t recall much of the injuries.
About all colours have a physical wavelength associated with it, but the Magenta hue does not. Instead, the brain is actually viewing the colour as “not green.”
Almost all colours have a physical wavelength associated with it, but the colour Magenta doesn’t as your brain is actually interpreting the colour as “not green.”
We scream out when we are really happy, and our hypothalamus in our brain can’t distinguish the difference between good happiness and sorrow.
When we sleep, our spinal fluid flows into the skull beyond the blood vessels of the brain. This reduces brain cell waste, a particular accumulation of amyloid-beta protein.
The fastest supercomputer in the world takes 24 million watts of power to run, but our brains only need 20 watts and operate over 100,000 times faster.
Exercise slows the neurological deterioration in our brains, and increased physical exercise will delay our brain’s ageing by 10 years.
We often think more about a person than a catastrophic event that might happen.
By taking study notes in longhand, your brain is able to remember because writing exactly what you study help you retain better knowledge.
The type of music you listen to impacts the way you look at the world.
Letting yourself to feel the negative emotions and feelings related to an event in your life might actually help you move past it faster.
When lovers look into each others’ eyes, their heartbeats synchronize.
If you want someone to like you, ask for their help. The Ben Franklin Effect shows that by asking someone for help, you’re instilling confidence in them and initiating trust, which makes them try harder to like you.
People who are similarly rated in attractiveness often end up together.
It takes only four minutes to decide if you like someone or not.
Some animals do, in fact, mate for life. Those include: Gibbons, swans, beavers and otters
Cuddling can be used as a painkiller.
Similarly, looking at a loved one can also be used to dull pain.
Broken Heart Syndrome is a real phenomenon experienced when you’re so emotionally distraught that you have chest pain.
Higher expectations leads to better performance, The Pygmalion Effect and Rosenthal Effects explain it best, but the idea is that teachers pay more attention to students they know are more likely to succeed.
A study actually found that playing video games can have some good side effects on kids, too. Video games gives kids a chance to unleash their negative emotions and also to face and defeat scary things.

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