Psychological Science & Research Insights
We seek meaning. We seek certainty. We seek explanations. Meeseeks purpose. People want to make sense of the world on almost every level of experience. …
Read moreSense-Making: How We Make Sense Of The World & Find Meaning
Women perform better on math and verbal tests at higher temperatures while men perform better at lower temperatures, according to a laboratory study on German …
Read moreWomen typically do mental tasks better in warm rooms: Heat affects cognition and equality
Earworms are those bits of songs that crawl through your mind and find a home in the middle of nowhere and everywhere. You know you …
Read moreMusical Earworms: Why songs stick in the head & how to dispel them
Evolution necessitates economical and reliable brain mechanisms in some environmental contexts. These mechanisms emerge as a response to patterns in the environment or enable us …
Read moreWhy Did Humans Evolve Pattern Recognition Abilities?
After a series of long & detailed posts, let me share something fun and amusing. Let’s look at 3 amazingly surprising and interesting quirks of …
Read more3 Stupidly Useless, Pointless & Amazing Facts About the Human Brain
Do you like it when you are surrounded by nature? Do you have a primeval desire to connect with nature? Most of us would answer …
Read moreBiophilia: Sensory Contact With Nature Can Improve Your Overall Well-being & Mental Health
This is a long article with tonnes of research and explanations for factors related to the concept of ugly. I have detailed research insights on …
Read moreThe Beautiful Science of Ugliness Reveals Ugly Truths About How we Judge Others
Psychophysics – Sounds cool right? It is. It really is cool. I am not overstating when I say that psychophysics is associated with our very …
Read morePsychophysics: Sensory and Perceptual Limits. The Human Umwelt
The brain experiences ‘time’ very differently compared to how it experiences information from other senses. It is actually possible to savor a moment deliberately and …
Read moreYou Can Mentally Slow Down Time To Savor The Moment. Brain Time Dilation Is A Thing.
I won’t tell you what you can do today to learn better or be smarter, but I will tell you what the brain does for …
There is one thing that baffles me. It is the idea of time. We are going to talk about Time Perception or how the brain experiences …
Read moreTime Perception: What exactly is time for the human brain?
Considering this is the era of fact sharing and how people like ‘quick bites’ of information, I thought I’ll compile some of the psychological facts …
Read more10 psychology facts that’ll (NOT) blow your mind away
Memory is perhaps the most alluring topic of research in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Through decades of trivial and breakthrough research insights, we know …
Read moreMemory Models in Psychology – understanding human memory
Welcome to font psychology or the science of typography – how fonts affect cognition & behavior of people. Designers swear by the importance of fonts. …
I love science fiction. All kinds. The B-grade kind, the kind which has a higher budget for a famous actor than for a thorough script, …
Read moreWhy is extrasensory perception (ESP) and telekinesis not possible?
…. Deep inside your brain, cross-modal correspondences make you human. The Kiki-Bouba effect: Which shape do you think is ‘KIKI’ and which one do you …
Read moreThe Kiki Bouba effect – research overview & explanation