THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY
Commentaries and essays on a variety of topics including parenting, the capacity for love, emotions, mindfulness and social issues.
A Book Excerpt From
The Road to Neuroplasticity and Change to Heal Trauma, Improve Cognitive Capacity and Maximize Performance
ABOUT THE BOOK
100 PSYCHOLOGY FACTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
See Also:
Intro to the Brain and the Power of the Mind
Intro to the Brain and the Power of the Mind
- Structure and Composition of Your Brain
- Strange & Interesting Facts on the Brain
- Hormones and Neurotransmitters
- The Role of Dopamine
- The Power of Thought - Neuroplasticity
- Neuroscience Glossary
- On average it takes 66 days to form a habit.
- The average person tells 4 lies a day, 1460 a year and a total of 87,600 by the time they’re 60.
- A woman will only argue with you if she cares about you. Arguing occurs less if she is not interested.
- If you hate someone you hate something about them that you have in yourself. What is not in ourselves does not bother us.
- The reason we procrastinate is due to fear, uncertainty or perfectionism.
- Giving birth is the 2nd most painful thing a person can go through. The first is being burned alive.
- A friendship that exceeds the seven year mark is destined to last a lifetime.
- It is impossible to remain angry at someone you love longer than three days. If you do you no longer love them.
- Expectant fathers can sometimes experience a sympathetic pregnancy where they have symptoms like back ache, weight gain, strange food cravings and nausea.
- If someone makes eye contact with you for 60% of a conversation they’re bored, 80% and they’re attracted to you and 100% of the time then they are threatening you.
- According to a study if you always text someone first then there is a 90% chance they are not interested.
- Women with higher IQs would rather remain single than be with the wrong person.
- If you can lick your elbow then you are more willing to try new experiences.
- The pupil of your eye expands up to 45% when you look at someone you love.
- It takes 4 seconds for a silence to become awkward.
- When crying from happiness the first tear will come from the right eye but if you are crying from sadness it will come from the left.
- Men say approximately 12,500 words per day whereas women say 22,000.
- We are most creative at night and least creative in the afternoons.
- The color blue causes the brain to release relaxing hormones.
- The human attention span maxes out at about 10 minutes, over that and we will tend to revert to daydreaming.
- It’s a myth that you yawn for your brain to get more oxygen. It is in fact to cool your brain down
- Convincing yourself you slept well tricks your brain into thinking it did.
- If you announce your goals, you're less likely to succeed.
- It only takes up to 4 minutes to decide whether you like someone or not
- People at the same level of attractiveness will end up together.
- Butterflies in your stomach are real and are caused by adrenaline.
- Your reading speed increases when the material is made with sans-serif fontsinstead of serif fonts.
- Moving your eyes left to right(and repeat) for 30 seconds can temporarily improve your memory for recently learned content. But only when you are right-handed.
- Your brain does more creative work when you’re tired.
- Falling in love has a similar neurological effect as getting high on cocaine.
- Opposites don’t attract. You’re more likely to be attracted someone who looks and thinks the same as you do.
- Memories get distorted over time. The average human has at least one false piece of memory.
- Depression is the result of over thinking. The mind creates problems that didn’t even exist.
- Smart people underestimate themselves, and ignorant people think they’re brilliant.
- When you remember a past event, you are remembering the last time you remembered it.
- 68% of the people suffer from Phantom Vibration Syndrome, the feeling that one’s phone is vibrating when it’s not.
- The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950’s.
- People are more honest when physically tired. This is why people confess things during late night conversations.
- People who play video games often are much more likely to have lucid dreams than non-gamers. They were also better able to influence their dream worlds, as if controlling a video-game character.
- If we have a plan B, our plan A is less likely to work.
- It takes five positive things to outweigh a single negative thing.
- Our brains have something called a “negativity bias”that makes us remember bad news more than good.
- We’d rather know something bad is coming than not know what to expect.
- When one rule seems too strict, we want to break more.It is called reactance: When people think certain freedoms are being taken away, they not only break that rule, but they break even more than they otherwise would have in an effort to regain their freedom.
- It’s impossible not to look if someone yells “don’t look!”
- We automatically second-guess ourselves when other people disagree.
- We can’t multitask. When you think you’re doing two things at once, what you’re actually doing is switching quickly between the two tasks—you’re still focusing on one at a time.
- Humans are victim to something called confirmation bias. It is the tendency to interpret facts in a way that confirms what we already believe.
- Your short-term memory can only hold onto so much information at a time. 7 pieces is the theory. Which is why you use “chunking” to remember long numbers.
- We are more likely to store information in our long-term memory if we’ve been tested on the information.
- We do well when other people think we will, and we don’t do well when people expect us to fail.
- We are victims of the infinite scroll. When you can stay on a website like Twitter without actually interacting and clicking, your brain doesn’t get that “stop” cue.
- By committing to perform a task for a minimum of five minutes, you ease your nervousness about it by giving yourself a deadline. At the same time, by spending some time working on it, you will find yourself wanting to see it through to the end.
- People who use and understand sarcasm have higher intelligence levels than people who don't practice this slightly bitter form of satire. Research also suggests that sarcasm promotes creativity.
- We ignore the ones who adore us & pay attention to those who ignore us.
- We seem to be magnetically pulled by people who don’t give us a bit of their attention. We can get obsessed with them.
- We often assume that laughter occurs when we hear something funny, but research has shown that it is the people doing the speaking who laugh the most – 46% more than their audience.
- There is a school of thought that suggests that people who settle for an adequate rather than optimal outcome (known as satisficers) end up more contentwith their choices than those who seek to maximize every possible aspect of their lives (known as maximizers).
- The neurotransmitter dopamine makes us feel good and it just so happens to be driving us to seek ever greater amounts of information, even if there’s no practical purpose to it.
- There is no way that our conscious minds can ever absorb every bit of information around us and this leads to inattentional blindness, where we overlook seemingly obvious things because we are either distracted by something else, or we simply don’t expect to see the anomaly.
- The world record time without sleep is 264 hours.
- People are more likely to return a lost wallet if there is a baby picture found inside of it.
- Our short term memories can only really store 3 or 4 things at a time and we need to keep refreshing facts until they can form more long term pathways in our brains.
- Smiling is 69% more attractive than wearing makeup.
- Group Behavior – Larger groups make poorer and more emotional decisions than small groups or individuals.
- The maximum number of close relationships/friendships you can maintain is between 50 and 150.
- Children aged between 6 and 12 are more likely to wake up hearing their mother’s voice calling their name than hearing the sound of a home smoke alarm.
- People who identify themselves as dog people tend to be more extroverted and eager to please others, while those who describe themselves as cat people tend to be more introvertedand curious.
- Any friendship that was born in the period between 16 and 28 years of age is more likely to be robust and long lasting.
- The more altruistic people are, the more sexual partners they have and the more frequently they have sex.
- The people who give the best advice are usually the ones with the most problems.
- People who have a strong sense of guilt are better at understanding other people’s thoughts and feelings.
- Men are not funnier than women: they just make more jokes, not caring whether other people like their humor or not.
- Shy people talk little about themselves, but they do this in a way that makes other people feel that they know them very well.
- Women have twice as many pain receptors on their bodies than men, but they have a much higher pain tolerance.
- Having a preference for bitter tastes is linked to psychopathy, narcissism and everyday sadism. A preference for coffee, therefore, could indicate some psychopathic tendencies in a person’s personality.In contrast, people who dislike bitter tastes tend to be more agreeable.
- Good morning and good night text messages activate the part of the brain responsible for happiness.
- The average amount of time a woman can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes.
- Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter the person is, the more selective they become.
- Marrying your best friend eliminates the risk of divorce by over 70%, and this marriage is more likely to last a lifetime.
- Women who have mostly male friends stay in a good mood more often.
- People who speak two languages may unconsciously shift their personalities when they switch from one language to another.
- Being alone for a long time is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
- People who roll the toilet paper over tend to be more dominant, while those who roll it under tend to be more submissive.
- Slow eaters generally like to be in control and know how to appreciate life. Fast eaters tend to be ambitious, goal-oriented, open to new experiences, and often impatient.
- Those who file and delete emails as soon as they receive them may have a greater need for control and order in their lives. Those who save emails--meaning they read them but don't delete them--may be perfectionists, who think they'll get around to addressing those messages eventually.
- The most common lie is “I’m fine.”
- Over half of the U.S population believe in psychic phenomena.
- People look more attractive when they speak about the things they are really interested in.
- When two people talk to each other and one of them turns their feet slightly away or repeatedly moves one foot in an outward direction, this is a strong sign of disagreement and indicates they want to leave.
- People are happier when they spend more money on experiences rather than material things.
- Falling in love is biochemically no different than obsessive compulsive disorder.
- The brain treats rejection like physical pain.
- The average teenager today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s.
- If a girl finds you attractive and she catches you looking at her, she might unconsciously start fixing her hair.
- When you spend money on someone else, it makes you happier than if you spent that money on yourself.
- Doing a small favor for somebody that doesn’t like you will change their opinion of you
- People are more likely to cry at night because being tired makes it difficult to control emotions.
- You can die from a broken heart. It’s called stress cardiomyopathy.
- A crush only lasts 4 months. If it exceeds that then you are in love.
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