47 Mind-Blowing Psychological Facts You Should Know About Yourself. I’ve decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People. As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans! The order that I’ll present these 100 things is going to be pretty random. So the fact that this first one is first doesn’t mean that’s it’s the most important.. just that it came to mind first.
Dr. Susan Weinschenk is the author of Neuro Web Design: What makes them click? <div class="slide-intro-bottom"><a href=" 5 Psychology Studies Every Awkward Teenager Should Read. We've demonstrated before that, even according to science, being a teenager sucks. So one could logically assume that if being a normal teenager sucks, then being a shy teenager must be even worse. But if we ever got the chance to go back in time to visit our lonely teenage selves ... well, first off we'd deal them an epic backhanded mouthslap (butterfly effect be damned). But once they recovered, we'd tell them to keep their chin up, because ... #5.
Getty Adolescence is the period in everyone's life where the idea of sex metamorphoses from a mysterious concept to an uncomfortable and alarming reality to a baited hook perpetually hanging above your head. Getty"Franklin Kimble: Right in the asshole. " In such a hypersexualized environment, it's easy to get depressed when your crushes are less than receptive to your charms (or, in the case of your average shy teenager, your lack thereof). Getty"I waited until I was 30.
Getty"I'm gonna give you a big push so you can go on your own for a bit. 10 Psychological States You've Never Heard Of... and When You Experienced Them. HOW TO CHEAT AT EVERYTHING. Over lunch with Simon Lovell, a fascinating former card shark, Allison Schrager learns all sorts of things about how swindlers operate ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE "I can spot someone's weakness a mile away. In any room I can pick out the best target," says Simon Lovell, reformed con artist and famed magician, when asked over lunch about the root of his talents.
"Take that woman over there. " He motions across the room towards a lady speaking to a man engrossed in his menu--"vulnerable, needy, looking for attention from the man she is with, but he won't give it to her. She even lacks the social skills to get the waiter's attention. " "Or that man over there, over-dressed, too neat, over-confident, thinks he is too smart to be taken. " "But ultimately, anyone can be conned, if you have the balls to do it. " Simon Lovell should know.
Presently, instead of subjecting people to cons, Mr Lovell stars in a one-man off-Broadway show, "Strange and Unusual Hobbies". 174,203 Things You Can Do Instead of Watching TV. Personality Tests. Psychological ("personality") Types. Psychological ("personality") Types According to Jung's theory of Psychological Types we are all different in fundamental ways. One's ability to process different information is limited by their particular type. These types are sixteen. People can be either Extroverts or Introverts, depending on the direction of their activity ; Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, Intuitive, according to their own information pathways; Judging or Perceiving, depending on the method in which they process received information.
Extroverts vs. Extroverts are directed towards the objective world whereas Introverts are directed towards the subjective world. Sensing vs. Sensing is an ability to deal with information on the basis of its physical qualities and its affection by other information. Thinking vs. Thinking is an ability to deal with information on the basis of its structure and its function. Perceiving vs. Perceiving types are motivated into activity by the changes in a situation. ENTp , ISFp , ESFj , INTj , ENFj. Personality Quiz. EyeWire | A Game to Map the Brain. 35 Lifechanging Ways To Use Everyday Objects. 46 Smart Uses for Salt. How many ways can you use salt? According to the Salt Institute, about 14,000!
The salt website has tons of handy tips for using salt around the house, and the best of the bunch — plus my additions — are listed below. I can't think of another more versatile mineral. Salt is the most common and readily available nonmetallic mineral in the world. In fact, the supply of salt is inexhaustible. For thousands of years, salt (sodium chloride) has been used to preserve food and for cleaning, and people have continued to rely on it for all kinds of nifty tricks. So with its nontoxic friendliness and status as an endlessly abundant resource, let's swap out some toxic solutions for ample, innocuous, and inexpensive salt. There are a number of forms of salt produced for consumption (and by default, housekeeping!)
Here are just a few of the many ways you can put salt to good use in your home: Test egg freshness. Set poached eggs. Prevent fruits from browning. Shell nuts more easily. Reach high peaks. PASSWORD HACKING. Need to hack someone’s Facebook password? Well, you’re at the right place! In this post I’ll show you some of the possible ways to hack Facebook password.
Also, at the end of this post, I will be discussing Read More This post will show you how to hack Windows administrator password at times when you forget it or when you want to gain access to a computer for which you do not know the password. Read More As we all know, Windows stores most of the passwords which are used on a daily basis, including instant messenger passwords such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Windows messenger etc. Read More MySpace being one of the world’s largest social networks, has become today a favorite place for many to maintain secret relationships and exchange cheating messages. Read More Did you know that using a keylogger is the simplest way to hack passwords?. 20 Clever Daily Life Hacks Just To Make Life More Easier. What's In a Face? Several years ago, a woman named Brook White appeared on the reality TV competition show . White was 24 years old, blond, and strikingly pretty.
When she sang her song, "Like a Star," she struck a familiar chord among some viewers. White said nothing about her religion , but Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, were certain that she was one of their own. "She has the Mormon Glow," one blogger wrote, referring to the belief that the faithful radiate the Holy Spirit.
Soon after, psychologists Nalini Ambady, then at Tufts University, and Nicholas Rule, at the University of Toronto, set out to test the Mormon glow. They certainly could—and in just a glance. "Thin-slicing" is the term that Ambady and her colleague, Richard Rosenthal, coined in 1992 to describe the ability to infer something about a person's personality , character, or other traits after a very brief exposure. Mormons don't drink or smoke. BEYOND THE HALO EFFECT: Attractiveness and Personality. 18 Awesome body hacks | Funny368. 31 Quotes That Will Give You Chills. I think quotes have a powerful way of conveying an attitude to you which sometimes resonates so much that you feel ‘chills’ inside. Here’s a list of the quotes which have given me the most of these “chills”. Enjoy! Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75. —Benjamin FranklinMost people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Fibonacci Spiral. Simple_Tricks-3.png (PNG-Grafik, 630 × 1500 Pixel) 25 Simply Awesome Tips And Tricks For Your Daily Life. Puzzles & Games: Sudoku, Crosswords, Chess, Checkers & More | Thinks.com. How Secure Is My Password? Brain Teasers, Puzzles, Riddles, Trivia and Games. 6 Famous Figures You Only Know By Their Insulting Nicknames. If you went to elementary school, odds are at some point you wound up with a nickname you hated. Maybe it was based on an embarrassing physical feature ("Dick Nose"), or perhaps a humiliating incident ("Shit Pants"), but either way, the worst thing you can imagine is actually becoming your name.
You know several people who had this very thing happen -- they're in every history book. People like... Real Name: Ernesto Guevara Nickname Means: "Hey! " T-shirt model and Marxist guerrilla Ernesto Guevara is probably the best known revolutionary in this part of the world. We smell a blockbuster summer comedy. The Nickname: You know how cartoony stereotypes of Soviets call everyone "comrade? " Here he is in his hipster phase. As it turns out, "che" is an Argentine filler word. One guess as to what's in that pipe. Guevara liked to say the word. Real Name: Matoaka Nickname Means: Slut. "Pocahontas? Quick, name a famous, female Native American. Phrases like that come from either Disney movies or acid trips. 10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World.
Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think. Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean. 1. Great glaciation is the theory of the final state that our universe is heading toward. 2. Solipsism is a philosophical theory, which asserts that nothing exists but the individual’s consciousness. Don’t you believe me? As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt? 3. George Berkeley, the father of Idealism, argued that everything exists as an idea in someone’s mind. The idea being that if the stone really only exists in his imagination, he could not have kicked it with his eyes closed. 4. Everybody has heard of Plato. In addition to this stunning statement, Plato, being a monist, said that everything is made of a single substance. 5. 6.
Enternalism is the exact opposite of presentism. 7. 8. 9. 10. 27 Healthy Habits of Happiness. Make A Cheap & Easy Solar USB Charger. Photos by Joshua Zimmerman The craftster behind the very popular $3 solar-powered emergency radio is back with a new awesome project: a cheap solar battery charger with a USB plug. Zimmerman wrote, saying that he saw a lot of small solar powered chargers being talked about over Earth Day, but there was a big problem: "They're all quite nice, but also quite expensive.
I don't think I've seen any for less than $60, and I've not seen one that really suits my style. " So, he came up with his own, using one of our favorite reusable items -- the ever wonderful Altoids tin. In looking for the cheapest way to accomplish the task, Zimmerman found that he could build a USB solar charger for under $30 (or $10 if be buys parts in bulk, though it's not likely you'll be buying bulk solar cells and DC-to-USB converter circuits).
Zimmerman states, "The central brain of our project is a DC to USB converter circuit. The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER... Doodling in Math Class: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant [2 of 3] Fibonacci sequence in music. Penn & Teller on Time Warp 1/3. The Best Slight-Of-Hand You'll See Today.
The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun. A Compendium of 150 Monty Python Sketches. 259.2K Flares Google+ 2 Twitter 38 Facebook 513 Reddit 6 StumbleUpon 258.6K Pin It Share 35 35 LinkedIn 1 inShare1 259.2K Flares × My wife requested that I post a particular Monty Python skit on the site. Well, posting just one Python video is right out!
No, here at One Man’s Institute for the Exceptional Documentation of Silly Time Wasting Videos we have a rule that one shall post no fewer than 150 videos – and the number of videos posted shall be 150. Therefore, being that my wife is an HR manager and has to interview tons and tons of mackerels, and furthermore since she gets a kick out of Monty Python’s classic Silly Job Interview… RIGHT!
On with it then! (In fact, as I understand it she conducts all of her own interviews in this manner. Additionally, in the spirit of being Halibut, I’ve spent a truly silly amount of time sifting through applicants, while wearing pantys and a bra. Albatross. This 10 Minute Video Will Change Your Life. 13 Interesting Facts about Dreams | Tasty Human. Dreaming is one of the most mysterious experiences in our lives.
During the Roman Era, some dreams were submitted to the Roman Senate for analysis and dream interpretation. They were thought to be messages from the gods. Dream interpreters even accompanied military leaders into battles and campaigns! In addition we know, that many artists have received their creative ideas from their dreams. 1. Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. 2. People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. 3. Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). 4.
Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. 5. A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. 6. If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. 7.
The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. "Force Quit" Yourself to Get Your Sleep Schedule Back on Track and Avoid Another Day of Fatigue. Your body has to receive triggers as to when it is day & night for your body clock run on. If you shifted continents, you'd still want to stay up later, faking the day/night cues for your body works. Basically, this means if you have DSPD, having the lights on at night is a killer, which is the opposite of what I want, because I don't want to switch them off when I'm feeling wide awake.
But, the lights on are exactly what makes my body think it's still day/early evening etc. There's a theory that a good portion of DSPD people are just more sensitive to artificial lighting than everyone else. Monitors are especially bad with the blue light. Doesn't really help the geek stereotype really. Wearing amber sunglasses from early evening onwards helps me, melanon, and bright lights that switch on about an hour before I get up in the morning. Oh, and I figured out a work-around for the weekend sleep-in.
And I do have to use 'force quitting' in the evening. Body Language Basics - Syncrat Publishing. Throughout history it has been an advantage if an individual can read body language. Body language helps in everyday life from closing a business deal or trusting someone with your life, to recognising when someone is upset. Body language is the art of making an educated guess at a person’s feelings or intentions based on their posture, movement and positioning. To understand a person’s body language you need to take into account more than one aspect of their body language. Take tears for example. Just seeing tears on a person’s face does not tell you much as they could mean a person is happy, sad or just they might just have watery eyes.
It is only when you also observe a smile that you can assume a person is very happy. Each action or stance in the following list means very little, unless there is more than one indicating the same thing. Arms Feet Head Chest Other. 15 weird natural phenomena. How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying Truth in Almost Any Situation. Mind Control Information, Facts. How to tell in 15 minutes whether someone likes you - by Bridget Webber. Body Language Signals: Eye Directions, Pupils. How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying Truth in Almost Any Situation. HOW TO CHEAT AT EVERYTHING. Facial Expressions Test. What Does Your Body Language Say About You? How To Read Signs and Recognize Gestures - Jinxi Boo - Jinxi Boo.
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