43 Psychology Facts Everyone Needs To Know

1HERE ARE 43 PSYCHOLOGY FACTS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW, AND SOME OF THEM MIGHT SURPRISE YOU.

11. Research has found that good relationships are more important to a long life than exercise.

22. Your brain does more creative work when you’re tired.

33.  Falling in love has a similar neurological effect as getting high on cocaine.

44. Optimistic beliefs about the future can protect people from physical and mental illness.

55. Holding hands with someone you love can alleviate physical pain as well as stress and fear.

66. Volunteers are significantly more satisfied with their lives than non-volunteers.

77. The risk of both catching a cold or the flu and of having a particularly severe form of the infection drop if you exercise moderately.

88. The placebo effect is getting more powerful over time. As medical technology improves, our faith in medicine becomes stronger.

99.  People who view TV crime shows consistently overestimate the frequency of crime in the real world.

110.  People with low self-esteem tend to “try” and humiliate others.

111.  Seeing others positively reveals our positive traits, seeing others negatively reveals our                  negative traits.

112.  Opposites don’t attract. You’re more likely to be attracted someone who looks and thinks the      same as you do.

113.  Memories get distorted over time. The average human has at least one false piece of memory.

114.  Around 80% of human talk in groups, is complaining.

115.  We seem to ignore the ones who adore us & pay more attention to those who ignore us.

116.  Depression is the result of over thinking. The mind creates problems that didn’t even exist.

117.  Being with happy people makes you happier.

118.  Convincing yourself you slept well tricks your brain into thinking it did.

119.  Smart people underestimate themselves, and ignorant people think they’re brilliant.

220.  When you remember a past event, you are remembering the last time you remembered it.

221.  You can’t multi-task

222.  You want more choices and information than you can process

223.  The ability to delay gratification or not starts young

224.  Your unconscious knows first

225.  You are hard-wired for imitation and empathy

226.  Our “strong tie” group size is 150 people

227.  Bite-sized chunks of info are best

228.  People assume it’s you, not the situation

229.  Even the illusion of progress is motivating

330.  Your mind wanders 30% of the time

331.  Your most vivid memories are wrong

332.  The more uncertain you are, the more you dig in and defend your ideas

333.  Your mind “rewrites” monotonous speech of boring people to make it sound more interesting.

334.  Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event      in your life.

335.  The type of music, you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.

336.  Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having a severe obsessive-compulsive      disorder.

337.  Phobias may be memories passed down through generations in DNA, according to a new            research.

338.  Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.

339.  The brain treats rejection like physical pain.

440.  68% of the people suffer from Phantom Vibration Syndrome, the feeling that one’s phone is        vibrating when it’s not.

441.  The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric           patient in the early 1950’s.

442.  Religious practices, like prayer and attending services, is associated with lower levels of              psychological distress.

443.  No one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.

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