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