That is it for today's episode of How to Be a Better Human. Thank you so much to today's guest, David DeSteno. His book and his podcast are both called How God Works. I am your host. Chris Duffy, and you can find more from me, including my weekly newsletter and other pro...
“When people have a romantic breakup, they feel very alone in their experience,” saidDavid Sbarra, a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona who studies how marital separation and divorce affect health. “They feel very isolated and think that the unique...
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27. “Where’s your will to be weird?”–Jim Morrison 28. “The things that make me different are the things that make me.”– Winnie The Pooh 29. “Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”– Jodie Foster 30. “At bottom, every man knows well e...
Oversharing after sex can be put down to science, according to a new study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin titled Sex Unleashes Your Tongue.
Those are some pretty good odds. But to make a safe bet, you need to learn a bit of female psychology. Get in the know, and who knows who you'll be dating this time next week! As ever, it's my job to bring you guys up to speed. So, in today's article, we'll be covering...
psychology, but all along the way, this was in the '70s, interest in the paranormal was really spiking, sort of on the heels of the '60s, spiritualist movement and the rejection of mainstream religion, but the rise of alternative religion or spiritual movements, which envelops the paranormal...
17 Comments to “Why People Believe Weird Things” john Says: March 13th, 2008 at 2:34 pm I am writing a term paper for my psychology class. We are to pick a borderline scientific topic and then find the appropriate sources to support or disconfirm it. I’ve chosen the Law of Attr...
Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Researchers – often implicitly – assume that either there is little ...
“Each time we worry and nothing bad happens, our mind connects worry with preventing harm,” explains Dr Seth Gillihan, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. We unconsciously think that, after all, it was a good thing to be worried. ...