Managing Social Anxiety for Networking Events
Social anxiety – a feeling of tension, self-doubt, and stress emerging from actually interacting with people and the idea of interacting with people. This can …
Digital Civics: Concepts & Human Interaction (Part 1)
We seek people out on a URL instead of IRL pretty much all the time. So we need to know what is considered good behavior, …
5 Deep Personality Traits, beyond introverts/extroverts
Learning your personality type is probably the most basic way to conceptualize yourself. And, considering we are meaning & pattern-seeking creatures, understanding personality becomes a …
Psychology of Retail Shop Designs & Layouts
Airports have so many shops arranged in apparent chaos in the lounging areas after security checks. But it’s not chaos. The primary reason is – …
Imitation: The Oldest way of Learning, still valid in Education
Monkey see, monkey do. We aren’t just monkeys, but a learning technique they used – learning by observation – still is one of the most …
Repetition Tricks us into Liking & Believing Anything
What’s common between gaslighting, liking a product, remembering song lyrics, and falling for pseudoscience? A core mechanism of how we perceive the world and form …
Your Productivity Lies in Your Clothes
The clothes we wear at work, during work from home, or in meetings directly affect our productivity. Clothes influence our behavior, confidence, motivation, and thought …
10 Biases that Make you Question your Dating choices
Everyone has biases and preferences, which we call “individual differences.” But most people share the same kind of biases regardless of their actual individual preferences. …
Why is it hard to make friends as an adult? And what can you do about it?
First, let’s look at how many friends people have. Because, you might just have an expected amount of friends and not know it. Others can …
Why am I always Angry or Frustrated for no reason?
Do you feel you are angry for no reason or do you get unnecessarily angry for little things? There are quite a few reasons that …
How to define who you are: Self-worth and Identity
Who am I? This is a question many people ask, and they try to answer it at multiple levels. The most common are their name, …
Psychology/Neuroscience Nobel & Ig Nobel Prize Research
The Nobel and Ig Nobel prizes award groundbreaking, fascinating research, from how Huh? is the most universal word to the location of brain cells that …
Do Violent Games make us Violent? Mostly No, but also Yes!
Forget what media says about how violent gaming causes violence. Sensationalism gives science a bad name. Instead, let’s look at research flooded with nuanced insights …
Do looks matter? Always, and in odd ways. Here’s the science!
Browsing on Amazon, scrolling on Instagram, swiping left and right on Tinder, observing people at an airport, and talking with others all have one common …
Memes are advanced emotions and outsourced thought patterns + they protecc (the psychology of memes)
When you imagine a meme, many of you might imagine a funny image with text related to a moment in the universe with some clear …
The Loneliness Loop: Understanding the science to break it and make friends
People go to extreme lengths to counter loneliness. They hug clothes in a closet, talk to themselves and toys, fall in love with an avatar …