Psychology

Wonderful, happy, birthday, nervous, daughter, baby, and thankful. Enemy, freedom, win, lose and battle. The first batch of words are more used by women on social networks, the second batch, by men. This is the conclusion reached by a study by psychologists from the universities of Stony Brook and Pennsylvania and the University of Melbourne, … Read more

The popular phrase that we see everything gray when we are sad would make much more sense in light of a new finding by researchers at the University of Rochester, in the United States, whose results have been published in the journal Psychological Science . The study used 127 volunteers, who were divided into three … Read more

We have all gotten angry at one time or another. We have screamed, we have thrown all kinds of curses, the vein in our foreheads has become very fat. But why? What are the evolutionary roots of this behavior? What good has it been that our ancestors got angry the way we do? Apparently, the … Read more

Some of our dreams have such a lubricious component that it almost seems that, instead of dreaming, we had accessed one of those repositories of X videos divided and classified perfectly by different kinds of filias: amateur, teen, BBW, creampie, hairy, etc. . Actually, a researcher at Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, named Calvin Kai-Ching … Read more

Teaching should not just be limited to imparting knowledge. It is also important how they are taught and, also, the kind of teacher who teaches them. In this sense, a teacher who inspires self-confidence in the student can radically change their academic curriculum. This is what is called the Pygmalion effect , and it was … Read more

There are those who master so many languages ​​that they should have applauded the day that Babel did come down. For others, however, they hardly know how to string together two or three words in a row despite spending time and energy on them. Why are there people who acquire verbal fluency in foreign languages … Read more

In a well-known experiment conducted by researchers at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, images of snakes and spiders were exposed to a series of volunteers. However, these images only appeared on the screen for less than one three hundredth of a second . To consciously register an image we need about half a second. … Read more

We often hear that someone is stressed, but is there a more or less objective way to measure the amount of stress we are under? It is something that Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe tried to do in 1967 after evaluating thousands of medical patients who were asked about their life experiences and experiences, looking … Read more

A recent study published in the journal Art Therapy that has been carried out by experts from Drexel University in Philadelphia, suggests that creating art in any of its manifestations can reduce stress levels , regardless of the artistic ability that we harbor. And, in general, doing things by hand, by ourselves, not only has … Read more

Broadly speaking, we could say that we have two ways of behaving : one way is characterized by social exchanges and the other by mercantile (or economic) exchanges. Social norms are very delicate and can be transformed into mercantile ones, but it will hardly be the other way around. Imagine that you own a nursery … Read more

On the subject of censorship I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, censorship seems abominable to me (even the censorship of content that borders on insult, blasphemy or apology for terrorism). Quite simply, I believe that the most effective way to eliminate certain ideas is to convince, not to prohibit . On the other … Read more

According to a study recently published in PNAS , a total of 40,000 studies carried out over 15 years could be wrong due to errors in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) software, one of the most useful imaging techniques to study the activity of the brain. The study took resting data from 499 patients around … Read more

Our brain is pre-wired to live in society. In that sense, selfishness or evil are not evolutionarily effective (unless a particular environment does favor it particularly strongly). This does not mean that the human being is cooperative with others in the most flower power sense (nor that we are all cooperators in the same degree), … Read more

Although this may seem to erode our reputation, we must allow our wives or partners to correct us. This will prevent us from making so many mistakes . It also helps if we allow colleagues, parents, close friends and even strangers to correct us. The best way to detect errors in a text you have … Read more

In a 2006 study by neuroscientists Mario Beauregard and Vincent Paquette of the University of Montreal, Canada, they wanted to use brain imaging to shed some light on how the brain experiences beliefs or religious feelings. To carry out the study, 15 cloistered nuns belonging to an austere monastic sect of the Roman Catholic Church, … Read more

Our way of proceeding intellectually is far from cold, calculating, and logical, Spock-style. Rather, we swing from reason to emotion, mixing slow (rational) thinking with fast (instinctive) thinking, as the Nobel Prize in Economics Daniel Kahneman would say . Even much of our seemingly logical reasoning is infused with emotional streaks. That could also be … Read more

Those who are dedicated to following demanding and unquestionable moral codes are the ones who will later violate them more easily using a highly trained cognitive dissonance (that mental sleight of hand that allows you to believe one thing and the opposite, or say one thing and preach another. , and not noticing anything at … Read more

Towards the end of the 1700s, the German anatomist and physiologist Franz Call announced the advent of a new science, which he baptized as cranioscopy, although his followers ended up designating it as phrenology. What Gall was suggesting is that different parts of the brain have specific functions, and that the surface of the skull … Read more

One of the strangest neurological cases occurs when the patient has lost his vision, is totally blind, but the patient is not aware of it: in fact, he denies it, and pretends that he is seeing perfectly . This is the case that, for example, Kathryn Schulz describes in her book In Defense of Error … Read more