Sense-Making: How We Make Sense Of The World & Find Meaning
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. …
Women typically do mental tasks better in warm rooms: Heat affects cognition and equality
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 …
Musical Earworms: Why songs stick in the head & how to dispel them
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 …
Why Did Humans Evolve Pattern Recognition Abilities?
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 …
3 Stupidly Useless, Pointless & Amazing Facts About the Human Brain
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 …
Biophilia: Sensory Contact With Nature Can Improve Your Overall Well-being & Mental Health
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 …
The Beautiful Science of Ugliness Reveals Ugly Truths About How we Judge Others
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 …
Psychophysics: Sensory and Perceptual Limits. The Human Umwelt
Psychophysics – Sounds cool right? It is. It really is cool. I am not overstating when I say that psychophysics is associated with our very …
You Can Mentally Slow Down Time To Savor The Moment. Brain Time Dilation Is A Thing.
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 …
The Fundamental Science Of Brain-Based Learning: 7 Subconscious Brain Functions And Learning Processes
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 …
Time Perception: What exactly is time for the human brain?
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 …
10 psychology facts that’ll (NOT) blow your mind away
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 …
Memory Models in Psychology – understanding human memory
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 …
Font Psychology: New research & practical insights
Welcome to font psychology or the science of typography – how fonts affect cognition & behavior of people. Designers swear by the importance of fonts. …
Why is extrasensory perception (ESP) and telekinesis not possible?
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, …
The Kiki Bouba effect – research overview & explanation
…. 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 …