Psychology
fromPsychology Today
20 hours agoHow Judgments and Opinions Can Make Matters Worse
Misleading thoughts and emotions can disrupt performance, but psychological flexibility allows individuals to pursue goals despite distress.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days agoWhy You Can Change Your Mind at the Last Minute
Changing decisions at the last minute often results from clearer understanding as emotions settle and more information is gathered.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 days agoTaking the Pressure Off of Decision-Making
Decision-making is often stressful due to unconscious biases and insufficient information, but clarity and self-awareness can ease the process.
Social media marketing
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says people who never post on social media but check it every day aren't passive - they opted out of the performance while keeping the window, and keeping the window without paying the price is the most rational position available and the one the platform was specifically designed to make feel antisocial - Silicon Canals
Silent scrollers on social media actively choose to observe rather than post, demonstrating discipline and self-control contrary to common perceptions.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe cruelest myth about self-discipline is that you have to feel ready - you don't, you never will, and the people who figured that out earlier simply have more years of evidence that the feeling eventually follows the action - Silicon Canals
Self-discipline begins with action, not feelings of readiness or motivation.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoMost people don't realize that the spotlight effect - the documented tendency to believe others are watching and judging us far more than they are - quietly steals decades of joy from people who never knew it had a name - Silicon Canals
The spotlight effect leads individuals to overestimate how much attention others pay to their perceived flaws.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoResearch suggests that high intelligence doesn't protect against bad decisions - it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions they were already going to make - Silicon Canals
Higher intelligence can lead to greater polarization rather than alignment on contested facts.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoPsychology says the most self-centered people in any room aren't the ones who talk loudest - they're the ones who respond to every story you tell with a story about themselves, so automatically and so consistently that they've long since stopped noticing they do it - Silicon Canals
Self-absorbed individuals often hijack conversations by redirecting focus to their own experiences, showing a lack of empathy for others.
Law
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months agoVideo evidence and eye witness accounts: The science behind why people see different things
The same police dashcam footage of a 2007 high-speed chase and collision produced sharply different interpretations, culminating in the Supreme Court ruling for the officer.
fromBig Think
2 months agoYour brain loves labels - even when they limit your potential
When I first met Rashida, she introduced herself with a disclaimer: "I'm a little intense." She said it with a grimace, as if the label left a bad taste in her mouth. I replied, "Good to know. What else should I know about you?" She told me she was a mother, a recent pickleball enthusiast, and a leader in risk and compliance at a Fortune 500 company. I thought maybe such a role demanded intensity, but I still asked, "Where does that 'intense' label come from?"
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoThe Cause Illusion
Ever since our ancestors first stood upright and squinted at the horizon, we've been wired to notice patterns. A rustle in the grass might have meant a stalking predator. Dark clouds often meant rain. Those who made these connections and guessed that one thing caused another tended to survive. Over time, this ability to link events became one of our most significant evolutionary advantages. It's how we built tools, tamed fire, and eventually invented Wi-Fi.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoDaily Prophets: How Your Brain Predicts the Future
I am a worrier, and have been for most of my life. At some point, someone dear and smart teased me that I worry about the wrong things. The things that hit me, she noted, were never the things I worried about. For a while that left me feeling like an incompetent worrier-until my research caught up. I realized that the things I worry about often don't end up hurting me precisely because worrying helps me diffuse them ahead of time.
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