The legendary Rorschach test will say a lot about your true personality. This personality test is more than a way to define if the person is crazy – it is a full personality evaluation. Many people are surprised how accurate the results are.
Jane Elliot Experiment with 3rd graders following the Assasination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Talking to yourself in the third person can help you keep your emotions in check, based on new research that aims to find simple and effective ways to reduce the impact of stress and other negative feelings.
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Why do some people do selfless things, helping other people even at risk to their own well-being? Psychology researcher Abigail Marsh studies the motivations of people who do extremely altruistic acts, like donating a kidney to a complete stranger. Are their brains just different?
If you were like me, you grew up with some basic rules to follow and keep with you all the way into adulthood. “Don’t stay up too late.” “Keep your room clean.” Don’t swear so much.” (My parents actually told me not to swear at all, but some situations call for an F-bomb. Have you seen A Christmas Story?)
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by Tristan Harris
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” — Unknown.
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked.
Having worked with police forces in Australia and the United Kingdom identifying those who sexually prey on children, people are always asking me how you can tell a paedophile from everyone else.
Stories of bullying and harassment in schools have become all too familiar. But there is another form of silent abuse that has been found to be just as devastating – and may be going unnoticed.
How do you survive in a closed environment where people are put together from all social classes?
If this picture makes you feel uncomfortable, you feel empathic pain. This sensation acitvates the same brain regions as real pain. Credit: Kai Weinsziehr for Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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