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Dec 1, 2014 · So for your reading pleasure (and for the next time someone asks you the "common sense" question), here are 10 particularly counter-intuitive findings from the psychology archives. Please use comments to share your own favourites that we've missed. 1. Self-help Mantras Can Do More Harm Than Good.
- Gender Identity Is More Nature Than Nurture. The medical and scientific community has long believed that the gender identity of a child was determined by “nurture,” or the child’s upbringing, environment, and how the child was treated.
- Emotional Intelligence Positively Predicts Life Satisfaction But Cognitive Intelligence Negatively Predicts Life Satisfaction. The rapid growth of technology and unpredictable market instability caused by recession conditions have greatly impacted people’s success and satisfaction with their careers.
- Positive Self-Statements May Not Benefit Those With Low Self Esteem. There is a common belief that positive affirmations and self-statements can help people with all kinds of difficulties including low self-esteem and self-concept, poor mood, pessimism, and hopelessness.
- Suppressing Your Anger May Actually Be Good for You. Many believe it is common knowledge that it is better to let your anger out than hold it in, that keeping your emotions bottled up will cause an explosion down the road.
- Under some conditions, paying people for their work makes them work less hard. Classic work on the topic of cognitive dissonance has found that under many conditions, if you pay someone to do some task, they realize that they are only doing it for the money, and their motivation regarding the task itself reduces dramatically (see Festinger & Carlsmith, 1959).
- Many people are capable of killing someone who is totally innocent if an authority figure requests them to do so. In his classic research on obedience to authority, Stanley Milgram found that a substantial portion of regular Americans are capable of engaging in behavior that would kill an innocent man simply because an authority figure requested that they do so (Milgram, 1963).
- Reactions to infidelity account for about one-third of homicides in the modern world. An analysis of thousands of homicides from two large North American cities found that a full one-third of homicides are connected, in a significant way, with infidelity (Daly & Wilson, 1982).
- Basic facial expressions of emotions cut across all cultures of the globe. The way that people express and understand emotional facial expressions varies almost zero percent across all human groups that have ever been studied (Ekman & Friesen, 1986).
However, the set of counterintuitive concepts is not fixed; because individuals’ intuitions are derived in part from their interactions with, and observations of, a particular environment, what constitutes the counter-intuitive will depend upon an individual’s particular experiences. Thus, we would expect to find that what constitutes the counterintuitive will vary between groups of ...
Jul 24, 2022 · No, rather than attacking common sense, psychologists are much better off defending their science by explaining the multitude of counter-intuitive findings. This blog is filled with them. Start with, say, choice blindness, and work on from there. These types of findings are the best evidence for how much more psychology is than just common sense.
Feb 27, 2012 · 10 Counter-Intuitive Ways The Mind Works. Ten psychological findings that challenge our intuitive view of how our minds work. Keep reading with a Membership. • Read members-only articles. • Adverts removed. • Cancel at any time. • 14 day money-back guarantee for new members. Become a member. Password.
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Jul 30, 2024 · By recognizing the limitations of intuition, valuing counterintuitive insights from research, distinguishing between universal principles and individual differences, and adhering to ethical ...
