Category: Psychology
Groupthink is stranger than it sounds.
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or…
Loss aversion still raises strange questions.
In cognitive science and behavioral economics, loss aversion is a cognitive bias in which the same situation is perceived as worse if it is framed as a loss,…
Why Salil Gewali still gets people talking.
Salil Gewali is an Indian researcher, writer and journalist.
You can miss the obvious when your attention is busy.
Inattentional blindness happens when attention is so focused that obvious unexpected objects can go unnoticed.
Your brain can trip over a word even when you know the answer.
The Stroop effect shows how automatic reading can interfere with naming the color of a word.
What people get wrong about Commitment device.
A commitment device is a mechanism or arrangement that implements precommitment by deliberately restricting one’s own future options in order to make a commitment credible.
Artery of Percheron deserves a closer look.
The artery of Percheron (AOP) is a rare anatomical variation in the brain vascularization in which a single arterial trunk arises from the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) to…
Seeing something again and again can make you like it more.
The mere-exposure effect means people often grow to prefer things simply because they encounter them repeatedly.
Expectation can change real symptoms.
Expectation influences physical symptoms through placebo effects, demonstrating how mental states can alter biological outcomes via brain-body interactions
Everyone is seeing “mission impossible” right now. Here is the real background.
Explore the origins of the Mission: Impossible franchise and the surprising musical connection to Belgian-Congolese artist Marie Daulne.