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The common core of dark personality traits, like psychopathy, is called the Dark Factor of Personality (D).
D is at the heart of both dark personalities (e.g., psychopathy) and socially offensive psychopathology (e.g., narcissistic personality). It is associated with overvaluing oneself, devaluing others, and subjective justifications for these behaviors.
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Study shows that adopting a cat screened for a calm temperament. It is associated with increased empathy and decreased anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder. Cat adoption was also associated with fewer problem behaviours such as bullying and hyperactivity.
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There's a name for the blah you're feeling, It's called languishing. In an article in the New York times, organizational psychologist Adam Grant, PHD, wrote that languishing is "a sense of stagnation and emptiness." While you're in this state, you may not see the point of things or anticipate any forward direction or fulfillment in your life. You're not necessarily feeling hopeless just a bit "blah."
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A person is more effective at analyzing fake news and conspiracy theories if they have a tendency for analytical thinking, which provides consistent protection against conspiratorial thinking and other irrational beliefs, but only if it was accompanied by the belief in the value of critical thinking.
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Murphy’s law states that “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. Another allegedly correct and original reading of Murphy’s Law is that if there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it. Technically speaking, it’s not a law, but rather a “quote-turned-maxim”. You have probably experienced moments of misery countless times. The day you leave your house without an umbrella, it starts to rain heavily.
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Takotsubo syndrome, also known as broken heart syndrome, is a rare, reversible condition with symptoms mimicking a mild heart attack. A disease that disproportionately affects women, TTS is triggered by stressful events such as bankruptcy, the death of a loved one, or divorce, and results in the weakening of the heart’s left ventricle such that it becomes temporarily misshapen.
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Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson's study showed that, if teachers were led to expect enhanced performance from children, then the children's performance was enhanced. This study supported the hypothesis that reality can be positively or negatively influenced by the expectations of others, called the observer-expectancy effect. Rosenthal argued that biased expectancies could affect reality and create self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Psychic numbing is a tendency for individuals or societies to withdraw attention from past experiences that were traumatic, or from future threats that are perceived to have massive consequences but low probability. Psychic numbing can be a response to threats as diverse as financial and economic collapse, the risk of nuclear weapon detonations, pandemics, and global warming.
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The sandwich method is a form of feedback that wraps negative feedback in praise. This means that the feedback discussion starts with positive comments, and is followed by negative criticism, before appreciative words are used again.
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The research, published in the journal Memory, finds that the act of reading and speaking text aloud is a more effective way to remember information than reading it silently or just hearing it read aloud. The dual effect of both speaking and hearing helps encode the memory more strongly, the study reports.
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Babies consolidate memories and new learned skills while they sleep, which is why napping is so important especially in the first year of their life.
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Over the course of a study, scientists found that of the 1,870 children (0.4 percent) who developed schizophrenia, none were born blind. The anomaly has led researchers to believe there’s something about congenital blindness that, in fact, protects people from developing the condition.
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If you want someone to like you, ask for their help. The Ben Franklin Effect shows that by asking someone for help, you’re instilling confidence in them and initiating trust, which makes them try harder to like you.
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While many people take medications to cope with feelings of despair, certain types of antidepressants have been known to eliminate someone’s ability to feel love and compassion.
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Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, is a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has a high frequency (a form of selection bias ).
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People are more honest when physically tired. This is why people confess things during late night conversations.
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Around 80% of human talk in groups, is complaining.
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Opposites don’t attract. You’re more likely to be attracted to someone who looks and thinks the same as you do.
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Seeing others positively reveals our positive traits, seeing others negatively reveals our negative traits.
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People with low self-esteem tend to “try” and humiliate others.
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People who view TV crime shows consistently overestimate the frequency of crime in the real world.
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Your brain does more creative work when you’re tired.
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Research has found that good relationships are more important to a long life than exercise.
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Falling in love has a similar neurological effect as getting high on cocaine.
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The placebo effect is getting more powerful over time. As medical technology improves, our faith in medicine becomes stronger.
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The risk of both catching a cold or the flu and of having a particularly severe form of the infection drop if you exercise moderately.
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Volunteers are significantly more satisfied with their lives than non-volunteers.
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Holding hands with someone you love can alleviate physical pain as well as stress and fear.
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Optimistic beliefs about the future can protect people from physical and mental illness.
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After a stroke or some sort of brain trauma, some people can develop “prosopagnosia,” also known as “facial agnosia.” This is when someone loses the ability to recognize faces. Even if it’s your best friend, you would no longer be able to distinguish a face from anything else. Many people suffering from prosopagnosia won’t even recognize themselves when looking in a mirror.
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