When you don’t use things, they take on an aura of “too good to use.” As something continues to be unused, we perceive it as more and more special — and are even less likely to use it.
We come to like ourselves when we realize we can do things. We don’t get good at doing things simply because we like ourselves.
Parasocial relationships are entirely one-sided relationships — ones in which one party is interested and invests significant time and energy in someone and that other party is completely unaware of their existence.
Due to the first instinct fallacy, we are far too reluctant to modify our initial impression — or change our first answer — than we should be.
Participants who had their hands held while they processed painful memories had lessened pain versus those who didn’t.
Overclaiming is when someone claims to have knowledge that’s impossible to have. A clear way this can manifest is someone saying that they’re familiar with something that doesn’t even exist.
It’s a fascinating mainstay that pops up again and again in psychological research: Most people think they’re above average. This is statistically impossible.
I’m a notorious cover stealer. I have always wondered about this. And I found a study that sheds some light on this.
Today’s study looks into something called “happiness essentialism.” Basically, if you have essential beliefs surrounding happiness, it means that you view happiness as genetically determined and therefore something fixed, predetermined, and relatively unchangeable.
One of the very first things you learn about when you go to school for psychology is conditioning. Most folks are familiar with classical conditioning
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