Turning scholarship into wisdom, we dig up the dirt on psychological theories you can use.
The idea that humans are on autopilot a lot of the time is not new in psychological research, and it's probably not new to you. So many of the self-improvement soundbites that are written and …
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Mind control is less common than TV would have you believe, but it can happen. Problem is, the kinds of shortcuts our brain uses to speed things up leaves up open to manipulation. The phenomenon we …
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Psychologists aren't allowed to tell you about certain things. Especially certain kinds of tests. Why? Well, it'll ruin them for you. They won't be 'valid' anymore and if you ever need or want …
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You could be as happy as a lottery winner (without winning the lottery) according to science. Since David Gilbert and his colleagues' seminal work in 1998, we've known that people are awful at …
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