America. Is. Fat. In fact, America is only getting fatter. Volp et al. discovered that those individuals who were given a cash incentive to lose weight performed significantly better than those given no incentive other than their good health.
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The Psychology of Learning: Craming and why it doesn’t work!
The mistake that many students make is that they think the path to long-term memory is a short one. In truth, it requires a little bit of effort. Cramming will never work because our brain does not work like an empty closet that can simply be filled by throwing everything we need to...
The Psychology of Learning: Context Matters–Where You Learn is How You Learn
Where you learn is very important as it is directly related to how well you will remember it when it comes time to take that final. If you learn in one environment and take a test in a completely different environment, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
Wearing Black Makes You Tougher. GRRRRRR
Swat teams, Oakland Raiders fans, The Wicked Witch of The West, the Russian MIGs in Top Gun, ninjas, and L.L. Cool Jay in Any Given Sunday all have two things in common; they all wear black and they are all pretty intimidating.
The Psychology of Twitter, Facebook, and Other Social Networking Devices
The internet has made it possible for humans to remain connected. Individuals who have problems finding friends or romantic partners by "normal means" may go to the internet and unleash the narcissism within themselves in an attempt to grab the worlds attention.
Money as a Counter-Productive Motivating Factor
What happens to people's internal motivation for an activity when they receive an external reward for doing the activity that they had previously been quite willing to do without the reward?
Psychology of Music Ability – An Argument for Nature Rather Than Nurture
Ukkola and her team found that there was statistically significant correlations within family and how the individuals scored. More creative individuals tended to have more creative siblings.
Facial Recognition
Facial recognition is a skill dependent on a specific part of our brain. The area, known as the fusiform face area is located in the same area that processes our vision and without it we wouldn't be able to identify people.
Social Proof – The Psychology Behind Herd Behavior
As much as we like to think of ourselves as individuals, the truth is that humans are very prone to herd behavior. That is to say that much of what we do is the result of what others is doing around us. In this post, we explore social proofing and how easily...