Interesting facts from the world of psychology
What kind of science is psychology? She is studying the invisible processes of human mental activity. Its task is to study how the surrounding world influences the human psyche and its behavior.
What other interesting facts can you learn while studying psychology?
Pain and illnesses
Painful sensations are not only physical, but also mental. Resisting them, you only increase the severity. The pain becomes less or goes away at all, if we move towards it. And the expectation and fear of her is more terrible than herself. This is the basis of interrogation and torture technologies.
Crowd syndrome
Moving along a completely unfamiliar territory, it is natural for a person to stick to the right side. Therefore, in case of panic, the whole crowd will rush to the right. Well, you move to the left so that you will not be injured.
Good estimations of
Everyone is happy with good estimates and remembers them much better. Who cares to remember the bad things? In 89% of cases a person will remember the five and what is connected with it. The probability that the triple will pop up in memory is 29%.Therefore, remembering the school years, it always seems as if you really have studied better.
Men and women
They differ from each other not only physically. If a man is asked about his sexual experience, then the average answer is seven women. The woman will remember her partners and add four more. The secret is motivation. Therefore, in the memory of both, there remain different meanings.
The disastrous color of
An interesting fact has been noted, confirmed by sports statistics. Judges often find fault with those teams in the form of which black predominates. Not to mention punishments!
Women's attention
Psychologists noticed the interesting behavior of women in the shopping process. In clothing stores they are attracted not neatly decomposed goods, but places where everything is piled into the heap. They think that the best goods are there!
Tricks of supermarkets
There is a wide field of influence on the psychology of the crowd. For example, the location of zones with goods. The most popular is sent deep into the hall, until a person reaches him, along the way, puts into the basket a lot of what he did not intend to buy.
Icy calm
Operates faultlessly. If the person is balanced, and still keeps calm and confident, he will be believed at once. A fierce and aggressive controversial trust is not, his opinion will definitely be disputed.
How many friends
According to psychologists, a person can not have a "sea" of friends - their number is limited. Although social networks show hundreds and thousands of friends from one person. This is an illusion, the number of close friends is limited to 50, in rare cases - 150.
Instinct of self-preservation
For human security, there is a special department in his brain. He balances on three "whales": subsistence, sexual instincts and the ability to assess the situation( its danger).
And this is not the whole list of interesting in psychology. In addition, it is not superfluous to recall that psychology and psychiatry, together with religion, are considered links in one chain, which keeps the society in obedience, following its integrity. Though sometimes individuality suffers.
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