43 Awesome psychological facts
2. If you ask someone a question and they only partially answer, just wait and stay silent, they will usually continue talking.
3. If you don't move for 15 minutes, you will fall asleep.
4. The people who prefer window seats on public transportation like to be alone during travel.
5. Marrying your best friend eliminates the risk of divorce by over 95%, and this marriage is more likely to last a lifetime.
6. Our brain automatically associates smiling with happiness. If we force ourselves to smile, our brain will assume we are happy.
7. People can recognize smiles from up to 300 feet away, making it the most recognizable facial expression.
8. People are more likely to return a lost wallet if they find a baby picture inside of it.
9. Your mind can sense someone staring at you, even when you are asleep!
10. Your memory works best between 8am -12 pm and after 9 pm. It is the worst right after dinner.
11. Intelligent people are more likely to avoid conflicts, which explains why some people notice everything but choose to say nothing.
12. The best way to appreciate someone is to imagine your life without them.
13. If a person sleeps a lot, then that person is sad.
14. Having conversation with a woman improves a man’s mental strength.
15.People who easily get distracted are more creative and tend to have higher IQs.
16. The larger your signature, the larger your self esteem.
17. If you have a crush on someone that lasts more than 4 months, it is considered to be love.
18. Wearing red makes you desirable to the opposite sex.
19. Creative people tend to get bored easily.
20. People with low self-esteem tend to humiliate others. Subjects who were told that the results of their IQ test were poor expressed more national and religious prejudices than those who reported higher results.
21. We're happier when we're busy with something.
22. Lying requires a lot of mental effort. A person who is lying has to keep in mind, at the same time, the lie – that is to say, and the truth – in order to hide it. As a result, he or she uses simple sentences and finds it more difficult to cope with mental tasks.
23. Our brains are just as active during sleep as they are when we're awake.
24. Behavior affects morality. People who have lied, betrayed someone, or committed other immoral acts begin to perceive what is good or bad in another way.
25. Attractive and honest appearances can easily be misleading. People tend to trust appearances more than sincerity.
26. On average, a habit takes around 66 days to form, not 21.
27. Appearance plays an important role, even when voting during elections. Maturity and physical attractiveness of politicians were mostly important for voters’ choices (unconsciously, of course).
28. We can only concentrate properly on something for around 10 minutes.
29. We cannot avoid paying attention to food, sex, and danger.
30. Humans are, by default, not rational.
31. Boredom has a bright side. Bored people are often looking for ways to do good things, as entertainment bores them and does not bring meaning to their lives.
32. Research has found that good relationships are more important to a long life than exercise.
33. Your brain does more creative work when you’re tired.
34. Falling in love has a similar neurological effect as getting high on cocaine.
35. Holding hands with someone you love can alleviate physical pain as well as stress and fear.
36. Volunteers are significantly more satisfied with their lives than non-volunteers.
37. Opposites don’t attract. You’re more likely to be attracted someone who looks and thinks the same as you do.
38. Around 80% of humans that talk in groups are complaining.
39. We seem to ignore the ones who adore us and pay more attention to those who ignore us.
40. Depression is the result of over-thinking. The mind creates problems that didn't even exist.
41. You tend to fall in love with the person who is more like your parents.
42. Getting someone to do a favor for you makes them like you more.
43. The secret of good sleep is to convince your brain that you had a good sleep (Now, all you need to know is how to convince your brain :P).
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