Why do people read negative Internet comments and do other things that will obviously be painful? Because humans have an inherited need to 1 uncertainty, according to a recent study in Psychological Science. The new research reveals that the need to know is so strong that people will 2 to sa...
Over 500 fans have voted on the 10+ items on Why Do People Fart? Everything You Need to Know. Current Top 3: Flatulence Removes Gaseous Waste From Our Body So ...
We don’t want to think of ourselves as capable of hideous acts, so we use hindsight bias to protect ourselves from the truth. We’d much rather believe bad people do bad things or assign blame to a sinister mastermind like Adolf Hitler, but that rationale misses the real lessons of hist...
all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better -and maybe not all that much better, after all. We’ve all known people who talk to themselves, people who sometimes squinch their faces into horrible grimaces when they believe no one is watching, people ...
is horrible PR for white people huh Jesus Christ can they move that show to an urban area every once in a while just touch a couple of our Kelly's peeing on some kids you know just balance it out a little bit it's like this every dude walking in that house got to look like me ...
The Journal has done some really excellent reporting in collaboration, of course, with some academics and other researchers at Stanford about how Instagram seems to be enabling just all kinds of horrible stuff like people seeking out so-called CSAM, Child Sexual Abuse Material. There was also a...
any time you walked into a restroom that was staffed by an attendant, you were likely too embarrassed to even make eye contact with them. Unfortunately, that’s a common theme in the job of a restroom attendant, who are also often exposed to verbal abuse from patrons, horrible stenches ...
Now, the idea is simple when we're applying it to coin tosses, but in fact, it's not very simple in everyday life. People are horrible at estimating both of these things, and that's what I want to talk to you about today.
Could Robin Williams' attempted murder of Pierce Brosnan be folded into any of the other horrible things about Mrs. Doubtfire? Sure. But this is poor decision-making at another level, and it deserves to be fully dissected. Drunk off of the success of his scheme (and alcohol), R...
We all know the feeling. That horrible uncomfortable silence where we freeze up, or look away or just want to turn invisible. Awkwardness can strike anyone in the wrong circumstances. But why does it happen? How is it connected to rules...