Tag: psychology
All the articles with the tag "psychology".
Why resting makes you less happy
A Harvard study pinged 5,000 people at random moments and found they were unhappier lying around than working. What made them happy wasn't a pleasant thought, but no thought at all.
The 2-4-6 rule that 96% of people get wrong
Wason's rule-finding experiment shows why stacking up supporting evidence never proves you right, while a single counterexample can prove you wrong.
What if your brain stops and you never notice?
Certain words and certain people trip a breaker in your head that shuts your thinking off, and you can learn to catch it and switch it back on.
Why stories beat logic - 3
Your worldview decides how you act, and a story you fall into rewrites that worldview, which is how Edward Bernays turned cigarettes into torches of freedom.
Why inefficient teams are the ones that survive | The Righteous Mind, part 4
The second half of The Righteous Mind, on the two feelings that bind people into a group and why costly, pointless-looking rituals keep it alive.
How to understand people who seem crazy | The Righteous Mind 1
A review of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind, updated with research through 2024, starting with why moral judgment is a feeling before it is an argument.
Three strategies that shake a reader
Desire, relationship, and difference: three strategies from Mentalist DaiGo for writing that moves a reader instead of just informing one.
You don't write to be read
The first of three posts on Mentalist DaiGo's book on persuasive writing: we write to make people act, and the thing that does the moving is imagination.
The limbic system: three ways to make money
The three emotion systems in Brain View, stability, stimulation, and dominance, and how the one a person runs on decides what they buy.
One question that kills fear
Fear is what drags you back into a fixed mindset. One question pulls you out of it, and it works on the way out of a bad day too.