PSYCHOLOGY FACTS EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

 

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39 PSYCHOLOGY FACTS EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW!

 

HERE ARE 39 PSYCHOLOGY FACTS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW, AND SOME OF THEM MIGHT SURPRISE YOU.

 

FACT#1: BEING WITH HAPPY PEOPLE MAKES YOU HAPPIER.

 

FACT#2: SIXTY EIGHT PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE SUFFER FROM PHANTOM VIBRATION SYNDROME, THE FEELING THAT ONE’S PHONE IS VIBRATING WHEN IT’S NOT.

 

FACT#3: A HUG LONGER THAN TWENTY SECONDS WILL RELEASE CHEMICALS INTO YOUR BODY THAT MAKE YOU TRUST THE PERSON YOU’RE HUGGING.

 

FACT#4: AROUND 80% OF HUMAN TALK IN GROUPS, IS COMPLAINING.

 

FACT#5: CHOCOLATE DISCHARGES THE SAME CHEMICAL INTO YOUR BODY THAT IS PRODUCED WHEN YOU START FALLING IN LOVE.

 

FACT#6: CONVINCING YOURSELF YOU SLEPT WELL TRICKS YOUR BRAIN INTO THINKING IT DID.

 

FACT#7: DEPRESSION IS THE RESULT OF OVER THINKING.

 

THE MIND CREATES PROBLEMS THAT DIDN’T EVEN EXIST.

 

FACT#8: FALLING IN LOVE HAS A SIMILAR NEUROLOGICAL EFFECT AS GETTING HIGH ON COCAINE.

 

FACT#9: HAPPINESS, ANGER, SADNESS, FEAR, DISGUST, AND SURPRISE ARE THE SIX EMOTIONS THAT ARE UNIVERSALLY EXPRESSED.

 

FACT#10: HOLDING HANDS WITH SOMEONE YOU LOVE CAN ALLEVIATE PHYSICAL PAIN AS WELL AS STRESS AND FEAR.

 

FACT#11: HUMAN BEHAVIORAL STUDIES SUGGEST THAT A PERSON WHO LOSES THEIR CELL PHONE EXPERIENCES A PANIC SIMILAR TO A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE.

 

FACT#12: MEMORIES GET DISTORTED OVER TIME.

 

THE AVERAGE HUMAN HAS AT LEAST ONE FALSE PIECE OF MEMORY.

 

FACT#13: NO ONE BORN BLIND HAS EVER DEVELOPED SCHIZOPHRENIA.

 

FACT#14: OPPOSITES DON’T ATTRACT.

 

YOU’RE MORE LIKELY TO BE ATTRACTED SOMEONE WHO LOOKS AND THINKS THE SAME AS YOU DO.

 

FACT#15: OPTIMISTIC BELIEFS ABOUT THE FUTURE CAN PROTECT PEOPLE FROM PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ILLNESS.

 

FACT#16: PEOPLE ARE MORE HONEST WHEN PHYSICALLY TIRED.

 

THIS IS WHY PEOPLE CONFESS THINGS DURING LATE NIGHT CONVERSATIONS.

 

FACT#17: PEOPLE TEND TO BE HAPPIER WHEN THEY ARE KEPT BUSY, AS THIS PREVENTS THEM FROM THINKING ABOUT THE NEGATIVE THINGS IN LIFE.

 

FACT#18: PEOPLE WHO VIEW TV CRIME SHOWS CONSISTENTLY OVERESTIMATE THE FREQUENCY OF CRIME IN THE REAL WORLD.

 

FACT#19: PEOPLE WITH LOW SELF-ESTEEM TEND TO “TRY” AND HUMILIATE OTHERS.

 

FACT#20: PHOBIAS MAY BE MEMORIES PASSED DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS IN DNA, ACCORDING TO A NEW RESEARCH.

 

FACT#21: RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, LIKE PRAYER AND ATTENDING SERVICES, IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER LEVELS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS.

 

FACT#22: RESEARCH HAS FOUND THAT GOOD RELATIONSHIPS ARE MORE IMPORTANT TO A LONG LIFE THAN EXERCISE.

 

FACT#23: RESEARCHERS ARE DEBATING ON ADDING INTERNET ADDICTION TO THE LIST OF MENTAL DISORDERS.

 

FACT#24: ROMANTIC LOVE IS BIOCHEMICALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM HAVING A SEVERE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER.

 

FACT#25: SEEING OTHERS POSITIVELY REVEALS OUR POSITIVE TRAITS, SEEING OTHERS NEGATIVELY REVEALS OUR NEGATIVE TRAITS.

 

FACT#26: SMART PEOPLE UNDERESTIMATE THEMSELVES, AND IGNORANT PEOPLE THINK THEY’RE BRILLIANT.

 

FACT#27: THE AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL KID TODAY HAS THE SAME LEVEL OF ANXIETY AS THE AVERAGE PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT IN THE EARLY 1950’S.

 

FACT#28: THE BRAIN TREATS REJECTION LIKE PHYSICAL PAIN.

 

FACT#29: THE MORE UNCERTAIN YOU ARE, THE MORE YOU DIG IN AND DEFEND YOUR IDEAS.

 

FACT#30: THE PLACEBO EFFECT IS GETTING MORE POWERFUL OVER TIME.

 

AS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IMPROVES, OUR FAITH IN MEDICINE BECOMES STRONGER.

 

FACT#31: 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.

 

FACT#32: THE TYPE OF MUSIC, YOU LISTEN TO AFFECTS THE WAY YOU PERCEIVE THE WORLD.

 

FACT#33: VOLUNTEERS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE SATISFIED WITH THEIR LIVES THAN NON-VOLUNTEERS.

 

FACT#34: WE SEEM TO IGNORE THE ONES WHO ADORE US & PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THOSE WHO IGNORE US.

 

FACT#35: WHEN YOU REMEMBER A PAST EVENT, YOU ARE REMEMBERING THE LAST TIME YOU REMEMBERED IT.

 

FACT#36: YOUR BRAIN DOES MORE CREATIVE WORK WHEN YOU’RE TIRED.

 

FACT#37: YOUR DECISIONS ARE MORE RATIONAL WHEN THOUGHT IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE.

 

FACT#38: YOUR FAVORITE SONG IS PROBABLY YOUR FAVORITE BECAUSE YOU ASSOCIATE IT WITH AN EMOTIONAL EVENT IN YOUR LIFE.

 

FACT#39: YOUR MIND “REWRITES” MONOTONOUS SPEECH OF BORING PEOPLE TO MAKE IT SOUND MORE INTERESTING.

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