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Science Explains Why Our Best Ideas Come in the Shower
Ever wonder why some of your best ideas seem to come out of the blue (while you’re in the shower, for example)? Creativity, while seemingly a very vague activity, is actually a distinct process...
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Music Preferences Can Say Much About Personality
New study claims that music preferences can be associated with traits of character and even with intelligence level. The key goal of the study was to determine which music styles have a negative impact...
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Nine of the Best Ways to Boost Creative Thinking
When it comes to creativity, one of our biggest concerns is usually how we can be more creative, or how to come up with better ideas. Research in this area is all over the place, but I’ve gathered some...
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How Your Moral Decisions are Shaped by a Bad Mood
Imagine you’re standing on a footbridge over some trolley tracks. Below you, an out-of-control trolley is bearing down on five unaware individuals standing on the track. Standing next to you is a large...
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How to Easily Memorize Anything with Cicero Method
The essence of the method is that the information should be memorized by units, mentally set in a familiar room in a particular order.Then it is enough to remember this room in order to recall the...
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You’re Not a Monkey When You’re Stoned!
The title to this piece is something that randomly popped into my head when I was Occult ganj-i-tating a few months back. I wrote it down on my Facebook page (friend me for strangeness) and ultimately...
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Angry All the Time? Try These Efficient Anger Management Solutions
Many people struggle with anger issues. There can be a lot of answers to the question: “why do we get angry?”, but the most accurate answer will be: because of the negative thoughts. Negative thinking...
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3 Types of Déjà Vu You Have Never Heard About
Everyone knows what deja vu is, but not everyone has heard about deja vecu, deja senti or deja visite. First of all, what is called “deja vu” is not in reality deja vu, but only a type of it. According...
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Let’s Get Physical: The Psychology of Effective Workout Music
“I dare them to find the iPod on me,” Richie Sais told the New York Times in 2007, when he was preparing to run the Marine Corps Marathon. USA Track & Field, the national governing body for...
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Science Explains Why You Should Stop Hitting the Snooze Button
It’s all too tempting to hit the snooze button when the alarm goes off in the morning. Don’t do it: You might think the extra few minutes will give you time to wake up, but it does more harm than...
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New Method Makes It Possible To “Erase” Memories
In the science fiction movie Men in Black, agents K and J were able to“clear” the memory of the unfortunate witnesses, thanks to a flash produced by a small portable gadget, to protect the secrecy of...
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Why Being Alone Is Hazardous to Your Health
It’s been well established that social isolation is a serious health risk, particularly for seniors. A 2010 study showed that too much alone time can be just as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a...
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“If Meditation Is Too Easy, You’re Doing Something Wrong”
We’ve talked about the benefits of meditation a number of times before and recommended how anyone can get started. The process is really simple, but perhaps deceptively so. Meditation is mental...
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Can Music Be More Effective Than Drugs?
According to a new analysis of 400 published scientific papers, the old adage that “music is medicine” may literally be true. Canadian psychologists from McGill University have shown that the...
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Implanting False Memories, on the Brink of Reality?
Implanting false memories is one of the favorite themes for science fiction books and movies (such as Total Recall), operating according to different suspenses cenarios. Thriller movies do not ignore...
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The Psychology of Language: Why Are Some Words More Persuasive Than Others?
What’s actually going on in the brain when it processes language? And if words affect the mind in different ways, are some more persuasive than others? Buffer cofounder Leo Widrich dives into what the...
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Psychological Concentration Test: Optical Illusion
Here is an optical illusion of motion and color perception, which can reveal if you have normal psychological concentration. This psychological picture test shows the amazing ability of the human...
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Placebo effect vs. Nocebo effect: the Power of Suggestion
It’s incredible how much each individual’s subconscious may be influenced by the power of suggestion! Since the subconscious mind is what controls our body and whole life, through suggestion we may get...
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ADHD As A Difference In Cognition, Not A Disorder: Stephen Tonti at TEDxCMU
Stephen is a Senior Directing major at Carnegie Mellon. He is also the current President of Carnegie Mellon’s Film Club. He recently completed his Thesis Project within the School of Drama: a...
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Your Brain Calls in Backup to Find Lost Things
By Breanna Draxler When you lose something important—a child, your wallet, the keys—your brain kicks into overdrive to find the missing object. But that’s not just a matter of extra concentration....
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