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A study published in the journal of media psychology found that people watch scary movies for three main reasons: tension, relevance and unrealism. Those who like horror due to its 'unrealism' enjoy it because they know for a fact that it's all fake anyway. For them, it's just pure entertainment.
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Chocolate discharges the same chemical into your body that is produced when you start falling in love.
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Within the first year of life, infants use social allegiances to predict how individuals within a group are obligated to behave toward.
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The language of genocide: PubMed lists peer reviewed psychology article defining "whiteness" as a "malignant, parasitic like condition for which there is not yet a permanent cure."
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The belief that one is smarter, better looking, more successful and more deserving than others, a personality trait known as narcissism, tends to wane as a person matures. But not for everyone and not to the same extent.
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The use of mescaline, a psychedelic substance derived from peyote cactus, appears to be associated with improvements in depression and anxiety, according to a new preliminary study published in the journal ACS pharmacology and translational science.
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Frequent visits to nature is linked to enhanced psychological well being and reduced mental distress.
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Focusing too much on individualistic achievement may generate stress and negative emotion.
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The self improvement industry online has exploded but with little scientific backing.
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People tend to be happier when they are kept busy, as this prevents them from thinking about the negative things in life.
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Lack of math education negatively affects adolescent brain and cognitive development. Not having any math education after the age of 16 can be disadvantageous.
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A hug longer than twenty seconds will release chemicals into your body that make you trust the person you’re hugging.
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Memories get distorted over time. The average human has at least one false piece of memory.
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Autistic people find it harder to identity anger from facial expressions produced at a normal 'real world' speed.
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Human behavioral studies suggest that a person who loses their cell phone experiences a panic similar to a near death experience.
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An international survey across a sample of 33 countries suggest that marital satisfaction declines as the number of children in a family grows. Importantly, this was only true for mothers and not fathers.
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Employees who experienced higher levels of job related physical activity reported feeling more stressed and exhausted. Conversely, when employees were able to spend more time doing leisure time physical activity, their reports of job stress and exhaustion were lower.
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New machine learning study shows that self-rated symptoms of sadness, feeling overwhelmed, impaired concentration and paranoia specifically predict transition to full threshold mood and psychotic disorders in young people.
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IQ tests can't measure it, but 'cognitive flexibility' is key to learning and creativity. Cognitive flexibility is an ability to switch between different concepts, or adapt behaviour to achieve goals in a novel or changing environment. It is a key player in both learning and creativity.
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Parkinson's law of triviality is an observation about the human tendency to devote a great deal of time to unimportant details while crucial matters go unattended.
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When we witness behaviors that violate shared moral norms, our brain inhibits the neurons that control our tongue movements, just like it happens when something tastes bad.
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Toxic workplaces increase risk of depression by 300%. A year long Australian population study has found that full time workers employed by organizations that fail to prioritize their employees' mental health have a three fold increased risk of being diagnosed with depression.
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Large landlords file evictions at two to three times the rates of small landlords; this disparity is not driven by the characteristics of the tenants they rent to. For small landlords, organizational informality and personal relationships with tenants make eviction a morally fraught decision.
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People who support a ban on pornography tend to hold more sexist views about woman. Generally, consuming pornography or supporting legal pornography was either non-predicitive of sexism or predicted lower sexism.
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Economic instability and low career prospects are not the only contributing factor to high suicide rates in men. According to a new study, men who overinvest in their careers and underinvest in family life and caregiving are more likely to die by suicide.
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Caffeine does not significantly affect the sleep cycle of an individual, but instead changed the grey matter in the brain. 20 subjects were given 2 caffeine pills each for 10 days, and 2 placebo pills for another 10 days. Quality of sleep was not altered but, grey matter changed depending on the presence of caffeine.
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Physically attractive workers earn up to 15% more than those considered less or unattractive. The beauty pay gap is larger for men than for women. Good looking people are paid higher wages to do the same jobs as less attractive peers.
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Horror movies are meant to scare you but for some people with anxiety, they may be comforting. According to Brownlowe, there's a good reason why. " The experience of your brain calming itself down after watching a scary movie is actually neuro-chemically very pleasurable."
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On average the earliest memories people can recall point back to when they were just two and a half years old, a new study suggests. The findings published in peer reviewed journal memory pushes back the previous conclusions of the average age of earliest memories by a whole year.
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Happiness, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, and surprise are the six emotions that are universally expressed.
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