Tag: human behavior
Hypnic jerk is stranger than it sounds.
A hypnic jerk is defined as a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person is beginning to fall asleep,…
Oneirology: what actually happened.
In the field of psychology, the subfield of oneirology is the scientific study of dreams.
Loring-Wyle Parkette is not quite what it seems.
Loring-Wyle Parkette is a small plot of land, on the northeast corner of the Mount Pleasant Road and St.
The real story behind Earworm.
An earworm or brainworm, also described as sticky music or stuck song syndrome, is a catchy or memorable piece of music or saying that continuously occupies a person's…
The sourced background on Semantic satiation.
Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated…
The surprising truth about Pluralistic ignorance.
In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance is a phenomenon in which people mistakenly believe that others predominantly hold an opinion different from their own.
The sourced background on Peak–end rule.
The peak–end rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak and at its end, rather than…
The facts behind Oneirology.
In the field of psychology, the subfield of oneirology is the scientific study of dreams.
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,…