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Mar 16, 2015 · The failure to perceive the anomalies is attributed to the failure to attend to it while engaged in the difficult task of counting the number of passes of the ball. These results indicate that the relationship between what is in one's visual field and perception is based much more on attention than was previously thought.
10 of The Most Counter-Intuitive Psychology Findings Ever Published. I'm very interested in knowing if there are studies for the reversed version of myth #1, i.e. if negative mantras helps us to achieve our goals. For example, a student that talks to himself negatively ("I'm going to fail", "I can't do this", etc).
- 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...
Mar 26, 2014 · Beyond the reach of formal theory, scientists develop educated guesses, hunches, and speculations based on their knowledge and experience. So the “intuitive” in counterintuitive could refer to the intuitions of experts. But in social and personality psychology we study phenomena that regular people reflect on and speculate about too.
The goal here is not to split hairs over definitions. It is to point out that the current view is similar to that of critical-thinking dispositions but probably not the same. What distinguishes an attitude is, at minimum, that it is (a) situational, (b) a function of the task at hand, and (c) modifiable and potentially flexible.
Mar 23, 2021 · Listed below are several particularly counter intuitive findings from the field of psychology. ... Many believe it is common knowledge that it is better to let your anger out than hold it in, that ...
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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 ...
