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How to Plant Ideas in Someones Mind. Why Do People Kiss. Her eyes are wide as they stare into yours.

Why Do People Kiss

You wrap your arm around her waist and pull her in close. She touches your face and you lean in, tilt your head — to the right, of course — and your lips connect. The rushing sensation leaves you little room to wonder, “Why the hell am I doing this anyway?” Of course, the simplest answer is that humans kiss because it just feels good. But there are people for whom this explanation isn't quite sufficient. So far, these kiss scientists haven't conclusively explained how human smooching originated, but they've come up with a few theories, and they've mapped out how our biology is affected by a passionate lip-lock. A big question is whether kissing is learned or instinctual. Supporting the idea that kissing is learned rather than instinctual is the fact that not all humans kiss. Others believe kissing is indeed an instinctive behavior, and cite animals' kissing-like behaviors as proof.

10 Everyday Things that Cause Brain Farts. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Psychology of Color. How to Develop a Photographic Memory. 6 Weird Things That Influence Bad Behavior More Than Laws.

Diligent readers of Cracked already know that our brains can be tricked by just about anything: manipulated images, our birth order and shiny things.

6 Weird Things That Influence Bad Behavior More Than Laws

But we can also be tricked into being generous, good people by our surroundings. Of course, it goes the other way, too. Your morality at any given moment can be influenced by ... Obviously, we are more honest when someone (or a security camera) is watching us, but studies have actually shown that if any depiction of an eye is in view, even if it is cartoonish or nonhuman, it makes people less likely to cheat or to behave immorally. Put the bong down until the article is over. In one experiment, all a professor had to do to drastically influence the actions of her colleagues was change the clip art on a piece of paper. A picture of a cartoon eye was placed at the top of the reminder notice, and the amount of money left in the honesty box tripled.

Just to be sure it wasn't a coincidence, the next week the eye was replaced with a flower. Classic: 5 Mental Disorders That Can Totally Get You Laid. We don't want to make light of mental disorders or its sufferers, but you have to admit sometimes a person can be just mentally ill enough to be cool.

Classic: 5 Mental Disorders That Can Totally Get You Laid

After all, chicks totally dig troubled guys. Now, when we say "troubled," we're not talking about that one naked dude on the subway who constantly masturbates and can only talk in machine code. No, we mean the complex and difficult soul, present in 70 percent of Oscar-winning movies, who spends two hours battling against his inner demons while being submerged up to neck level in pussy. You can be that guy, if only you're lucky enough to contract an inconvenient and traumatic brain condition. Here are 5 such disorders that might just be cool enough to get you laid. This very rare condition arises as a result of a stroke or head trauma in which the brain's speech center is damaged, causing the sufferer to regain consciousness with a totally different accent. Will it get me laid? Jesus. The 6 Most Mind Blowing Ways Your Brain Can Malfunction. There is nothing we take for granted as much as sanity.

The 6 Most Mind Blowing Ways Your Brain Can Malfunction

No matter what "crazy" unexpected thing might happen at the office tomorrow, you still know that you're not going to show up and find, say, your boss replaced by a talking guitar. But as we have explored before, there are mental disorders that can mess with your perception of reality in unimaginable ways, while often leaving the rest of your mind untouched. Disorders like ... #6. Fregoli Syndrome Imagine you get into an argument with your asshole roommate about the unpaid rent. Photos.comApparently Mr. Furious, you go to the local bar, only to find that your asshole roommate is the one pouring the drinks. The Condition: Blog & The Crazy World of Visual Hallucinations.