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Sep 9, 2020 · Here are 16 pleasant yet perplexing reminders that you may not know as much as you believe. Advertisement. 16. Source: Smithsonian Magazine. 15. Source: The Denver Post. 14. Advertisement. 13.
Mar 16, 2015 · The probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders. – Zack T. Commented Mar 16, ... Things that are too obvious are not counterintuitive - it ...
- Self-Help Mantras Can Do More Harm Than Good
- People Do Not Learn Better When Taught Via Their Preferred "Learning Style"
- Criminals Show Cooperation and Prosocial Behaviour in Economic Games
- Bottling Up Your Anger May Actually Be Good For You
- We Make Many Decisions Mindlessly
- Opposites Don't Attract
- Wine Experts Don't Know If They're Smelling Red Or White Wine
- It Helps to Have Narcissists on Your Team
- Placebo Treatments Can Work Even When People Are Told It's A Placebo
- Sometimes A Pregnant Woman's Depression Is Advantageous For Her Baby
If you've got low self-esteem, you might want to avoid uttering positive mantras such as "I'm a lovable person". A 2009 study found that people lacking in self-belief who spoke this phrase to themselves didn't feel any better afterwards. In fact they felt worse, possibly because the repeated utterance led them to generate contradictory thoughts aut...
An incredibly popular idea, including among teachers, is that pupils learn better when they are taught information via their preferred modality, such as auditory, visual or by doing. In fact research has shown that people do not perform better when they are taught information via the modality that they say they prefer. A 2008 review of the learning...
It's easy to demonise people who have broken the law. However, recent studies using economic games that test fairness and cooperation show that this is short-sighted. Last year, researchers observed prisoners' performance on a famous game known as the "prisoner's dilemma" – the convicted criminals actually displayed more cooperation during the game...
Folk wisdom states that it's better to relieve your anger by letting it out. In fact a tendency to lose one's temper tends to go hand in hand with poorer health. Another study found that hitting a punch-bag while thinking about the person who made you angry actually just makes you angrier. It's a complicated area, and expressing anger constructivel...
Unless we're exhausted or intoxicated, we usually feel as though we are very much in control of our own choices and that we make them consciously and deliberately. This intuitive view is challenged by research on what's known as "choice blindness". In one study from 2005, participants picked out the face they found more attractive from successive p...
When it comes to human relationships, the aphorism that "opposites attract" turns out to be wide of the mark. There are of course exceptions, but mountains of evidence highlights how we are drawn to friends and romantic partners who are similar to ourselves, whether in terms of physical appearance, their personality, interests, or beliefs – known a...
There is a vast literature on the limitations of expertise (for instance, political pundits are mostly useless at predicting electoral outcomes), but one of my favourite examples concerns people who study wine. A 2001 investigation showed that all it took to trick trainee oenologists into thinking a white wine smelt of red wine, was to dye it red. ...
We usually think of narcissists – people with inflated views of their own skills and self-importance – as individuals to avoid. However, a study published in 2010found that their presence can have a beneficial effect in the context of creative team work. When groups of four people were challenged to come up with new ways for a company to improve, i...
The amazing power of the placebo effect – the way that our beliefs about the action of an inert medicine can trigger substantial physiological effects – is itself, counter-intuitive. More surprising perhaps, is that the effect can still occur even when people know the medicine is inert. This was shown in a 2010 studyinvolving people with IBS. "Our ...
There is lots of evidence showing the adverse effects of a stressful pregnancy. But dig deeper into this field and you find some surprising results. For instance, a 2012 studyuncovered an association between depression in pregnancy and superior functioning in the child at ages three and six months. This was found in the specific context in which th...
- 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.
Mar 23, 2021 · Support is used to help people navigate the growing complexity in their work-life across time. Research has shown that the more career and psychosocial support people receive the more satisfied ...
Dec 11, 2019 · The counterintuitive move would be to ask for help from family, friends, and professionals. It may be embarrassing, but admitting our confusion can free us from the difficulty. Only then do we ...
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Doing a little bit to help is surprisingly easy, just because there’s so much suffering to go around. I live in Durham, North Carolina, and about a year ago we had a day with local organizations that help the poor with money issues—community banks, organizations that help with tax preparation, all kinds of other financial organizations.
