The Rolodex of Hate
As simple as it may seem (I hate you, that’s it, right?), most people don’t realize that it’s not the case. Like its positive counterpart,…
Category: Interesting Facts
The Availability Heuristic: How Recall Ability Affects Perception
Anyone that had access to social media probably remembers the Ebola panic: when, in fall 2014, Ebola was everywhere– from TV and radio to all…
New Research Suggest Birth Control Pills Result in Women Being Attracted to Less Masculine Men
Can birth control substances alter our perception of others’ attractiveness? What if scientists informed you that taking birth control pills made us unintentionally more attracted…
Students Prefer to Receive an Electric Shock than Think for 15 Minutes
We have all experienced those unpleasant thoughts that pop up into your brain when you have nothing better to do. Whether we’re taking a shower,…
Highly Trained Professionals Chime In With Their Insights Yielded From Scientific Studies of Compatibility and Chemistry
Compatibility and chemistry have easily molded into becoming interchangeable in the realm of every form of relationship: friendships, professional relationships and romantic love. Society’s definition…
10 Mental Abnormalities You Will Learn About
One of my favorite course in psychology was abnormal psychology. It covered a wide range of mental disorders. Some that I had no idea…
A Walk In My Shoes Part 2
Schizophrenia: A Walk In My Shoes Part 2: The Saint Could Not Save Him I had met him through a mutual friend in November 2002.…
Asian American Men And Western Dating: Cultural Reasoning Why They’re Unfavorable Romantically
…a Japanese mother…had married her college sweetheart, the veritable big man of campus, and who was Caucasian. She has 3 sons, two of them who…
All Eyes on Me: The Spotlight Effect
“Everyone’s looking at me. Everyone is staring at me…” Have you ever felt that all eyes were on you in a given situation? Whether it’s…
1989 Study vs. Modern Day Studies of Women’s Desire for Casual Sex
Women’s approach to expressing their sexuality continues to be a taboo and complicated manner. Many of us yearn for casual sex, but are molded by…
3 Things You Are Most Likely to be When You’re Creative
Arguably, the definition of creativity is arbitrary. Different answers can be fleshed out from different people when asked about this and what is it…
Cheerleader Effect: “How I Met Your Mother” Dating Theory Scientifically Verified
Barney Stinson proposed a theory in “How I Met Your Mother” Season 4: Episode 7 in which he labeled the “cheerleader effect”. “The cheerleader effect…
Passion Greatly Correlates with Irrationality
We’ve all been there: the obsessive cyclist who tears their knee ACL from excusing doctors’ warnings to give their body a break, the obsessive secret…
Meyer-Briggs Scarily Accurate Personality Profiles: What’s your type?
Human beings enjoy categorizing things. It facilitates our understanding of relationships between things or concepts that might seem unrelated. Among groups, it also provides a…
Misattribution of Arousal: Scary Activities Indirectly Lead to Higher Attraction
Imagine this: to stay alive, you MUST cross an extremely wobbly, cricking and sky level bridge that’s stationed in the middle of a forest canyon.…
5 Interesting Findings About Interracial Relationships
“Race is a social construct; race isn’t real,” shares 28 year old Jonathan Brent, the son of a White father and a Japanese-American mother. Formerly…
The Height of a Woman’s Shoe Heel Affects a Man’s Willingness to Help
Get this: a woman is standing in front of your local grocery store asking every male stranger to complete a survey for her. At first,…
Psychology of Men: What Do Men Advise Women to Stop Doing?
“…taking dating advice or relationship advice from girlfriends often makes us dumber, and more stressed. Because most women get women – they don’t get men.…
3 Insights to Comprehending and Interacting With Men
Great communication skills are ideal to sustain any sort of professional, friendly or romantic relationship. Common sense, right? It might seem to be…but, how many…
10 Facts About Male Attraction!
This article contains psychological information and facts about male attraction in heterosexual relationships. Like all psychological findings, they represent generalizations and do not reflect everyone. Different…