If you announce your goals to others, you are less likely to make them happen because you lose motivation, studies confirmed.
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Your mind "rewrites" monotonous speech of boring people to make them sound more interesting.
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There are more than 400 distinct phobias well recognized by psychologists.
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Your favorite song is probably such because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.
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The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.
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Millionaires who have earned their wealth are moderately happier than those who inherited it, a 2018 psychology study found.
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Spending money on others yields more happiness than spending it on yourself, a study concluded.
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Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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The key to happiness is spending your money on experiences rather than possessions, according to studies.
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30%
of pregnant women crave nonfood items, an eating disorder called pica.
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270 scientists re-ran 100 studies published in the top psychology journals in 2008. Only half the studies could be replicated successfully.
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There's a rare mental disorder where people imagine that they are decomposing, dead or non-existent.
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Researchers are
debating on adding
Internet addiction
to the list of mental disorders.
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1 in 5 people in France has experienced depression
making it the most depressed country in the world.
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Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are "narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic".
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The Truman Syndrome is a psychological disorder in which patients believe they're living in a reality TV show.
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The brain treats rejection like physical pain, according to scientists.
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"Erotomania" is a psychological disorder in which the affected people believe a famous person is in love with them.
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68% of the people suffer from Phantom Vibration Syndrome, the feeling that one's phone is vibrating when it's not.
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Paris Syndrome is a psychological disorder, mainly suffered by Japanese people, caused after realizing Paris isn't what they expected.
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The Jerusalem syndrome is a group of psychological phenomena triggered by a visit to Jerusalem, Israel.
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The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950's.
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Religious practices, like prayer and attending services, is associated with lower levels of psychological distress.
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No one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.
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Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder: between 5% and 20% eventually die from it.
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Hallucinatory 'voices' seem to be shaped by local culture. In the U.S., the voices are harsh and threatening while those heard by schizophrenics in Africa and India tend to be more benign and playful.
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Comedians and funny people are usually more depressed than average, research found.
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Severe Depression can cause us to biologically age more by increasing the aging process in cells.
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About 1 million Japanese men are estimated to be locking themselves in their bedrooms for years, creating social and health problems, a condition called "Hikikomori."
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In addition to aches, fever and pains, Tylenol (acetaminophen) also alleviates psychological pain, such as social rejection.
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Crying makes you feel better, reduces stress, and may help to keep the body healthy.
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The feeling of Certainty can be triggered without the need for facts or reasoning, using electric stimulation over a specific part of the brain.
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A study found that fewer than 10% of people say they're not perfectionists
in any area of life, so perfectionism is a common trait.
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Around 6% of people have narcissistic personality disorder. They have a strong sense of self-importance and lack empathy.
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People with unfortunate initials, such as P.I.G. or A.S.S. have significant lower life expectancy, due to psychological stress related to childhood bullying.
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Gratitude can boost dopamine and serotonin, just like antidepressants.
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Sarcasm promotes creativity, a Harvard study found.
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Antidepressant drugs, already known to cause sexual side effects, may also suppress the basic human emotions of love and romance.
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82% of people would feel more confident approaching an attractive person if they had their dog with them, a survey found.
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Boanthropy is a psychological disorder where people think they're cows.
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Living in sight of water can make you calmer, happier and more creative, a study found.
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Research shows that
just thinking about a Plan B
can make it less likely
that you'll achieve Plan A.
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Phobophobia
is the fear of having a phobia.
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Interrogative self-talk --e.g. Will I go for a run today?-- is more motivating than declaring something to be true, a study found.
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Saying "Thank you" makes people see you as a warmer person, a study found.
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More than a third of Europeans have a mental health disorder.
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Most drivers think they are a better-than-average driver.
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Researchers have found that optimism is a teachable skill and that you can be the one to teach yourself.
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1 in 5 American CEOs have clinically significant psychopathic traits.
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Our memories can be so easily manipulated that in just 3 hours you can be convinced you committed a crime in your teenage years, a research found.
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People who swear more often are more honest than those who don't, a study found.
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Pronoia, the opposite of paranoia, is the delusion that everyone is secretly plotting your success.
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"Transabled" people cut off their own limbs to become disabled. That makes them feel more comfortable in their own body.
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"Wrap rage" is the anger and frustration felt when you are unable to open packages.
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People plotting revenge experience heightened activity in the brain's reward center, according to a 2004 study in the journal Science.
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Shyness is an evolutionary adaptation: whereas the braver animals may find more mates and eat more food, the shyer individuals, hiding on the sidelines, might avoid attack.
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The "IKEA effect" is the tendency for people to place a disproportionately high value on objects that they partially assembled themselves, regardless of the quality of the end result.
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For luxury brands, the ruder the sales staff, the higher the sales, research found.
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Only about a third of Americans consider themselves "very happy."
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder often co-exists with depression or anxiety, which is typically the only reason a narcissist tries therapy.
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The "high place phenomenon" is the sudden urge to jump off a high place, such as a bridge.
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Experiencing new things slow down our internal sense of time, studies have found.
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Narcissistic and psychopathic people are not as good at manipulating others online as they are in person, research shows.
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Millennial college students are 40% less empathetic than those of the 1980s and 1990s, a 2010 study found.
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Having no friends could be as deadly as smoking, a Harvard University study suggested. There's a link between loneliness and the levels of a blood-clotting protein which can cause heart attacks and stroke.
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A study found that, while men are attracted to "nice-seeming" women upon meeting them, women do not feel the same way about "nice" men.
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People under the influence of power act as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury, becoming more impulsive, less risk-aware and less adept at seeing things from other people's point of view.
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"Time anxiety" occurs in a person when they are perpetually afraid of being late, or of others being late.
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The percentage of Americans who define themselves as lonely doubled from 20% to 40% since the 1980s.
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Only 17% of 11 to 38-year-olds experience no mental disorders, according to a study in New Zealand.
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The Jonah complex is the fear of success which prevents self-actualization.
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Dendrophilia is the sexual arousal from trees.
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Until the 1970s, The Soviet Union used a fake mental disorder (Sluggish Schizophrenia) to arrest anyone who criticized the leadership.
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Ph.D. students display twice as many symptoms of psychiatric disorders, such as depression, than other people.
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Writers are 121% more likely to suffer from bipolar disorder than those working in uncreative fields.
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People who stay up late tend to be risk-takers, a study found.
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Research found that kids aged 4-6 perform better during boring tasks when dressed as Batman.
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Researchers in Norway published a psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction in 2012.
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According to a study, men who express anger are more likely to influence their peers, while the opposite is true for women.
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Studies show that trauma victims who don't search for a reason for their misfortune turn out to be the most well-adjusted years later.
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Most people believe other people's social lives are richer and more active than their own, a study found.
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3 out of 4 teenage girls feel depressed after looking at a fashion magazine for only 3 minutes, according to a study.
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Ambivert is the balance between introvert and extrovert.
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Studies have suggested that losses are, psychologically, twice as powerful as gains. So winning $100 feels as good to us as losing $50 feels bad.
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Childhood bullying can cause lifelong psychological damage, including depression, anxiety, social withdrawal and severe trust issues.
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Phobias may be memories passed down through generations in DNA, according to a new research.
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The pressure to feel upbeat can make you feel downbeat. Embracing your darker moods is better in the long-run, psychology researchers found.
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People develop first impressions of you in a tenth of a second.
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Anxiety in men often does not appear as nervousness or worry appears, but rather as anger, muscle aches or alcohol use.
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