Beginning and ends are easier to remember.

Have you ever been grocery store and forgot your grocery list at home?

When trying to remember what was in it, you can visualize it and remember things close.

to the beginning and the end.

But the things that are in the middle are a little fuzzy.

A study in the Frontiers of Human Neuroscience confirmed this.

They called that the Serial-Position Effect.

It's also why you might remember the end of your manager's presentation, but the middle,

not really.

So, it is normal, and you may not have ADHD after all.

- When One Rule Seems Too Strict, We Want to Break More

In the psychological phenomenon known as Reactance, people tend to break more rules when they

feel like certain freedoms are being limited in an effort to regain the freedom that they

perceive as being taken away.

This is best illustrated in teenagers.

When grounded, not only might they sneak out, but they may end up engaging in other risky

behaviors as a form of reactance.

- There's A Reason We Want to Squeeze Cute Things

Puppies and babies.

Don't you just want to love them and squeeze them and cuddle with them?

Well, apparently, that's a natural reaction, and it's known as Cute Aggression.

According to an article in the Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, the idea behind cute

aggression is that when we're overcome with positive feelings like those elicited by an

adorable pup or baby, a tad bit of aggression balances out those overwhelming feelings,

so that we don't harm innocent little beings.

- We Unintentionally Believe What We Want to Believe

Confirmation Bias is the tendency to interpret facts in a way that confirms what we already

believe.

This explains why people with certain political views prefer certain news outlets over others.

Forget even trying to get Uncle Fred to change his stance on international relations.

Not only does confirmation bias lead us to seek out information that agrees with what

we already believe, but it also causes us to reject contradictory information.

- You're Programmed To Most Love The Music You Listened To In High School

Good music triggers the release of dopamine and other feel-good chemicals.

"This is my jam!" said every teenager at a party at some point ever.

Ah, the days of high school...

Or actually between the ages of 12 and 22, when the importance of everything feels magnified.

Music included.

Studies show that we connect to the music we bonded to during our teenage years, more

so than we ever will as adults, despite the passage of time.

- Memories Are More Like Pieced-Together Pictures Than Accurate Snapshots

False memories are something that you recall in your mind but aren't actually true, either

in whole or in part.

An example could be believing you started the dishwasher before you left for work when

you really didn't.

This is because our brains can sometimes inaccurately fill in the blanks when it only remembers

the gist of what happened.

- We Look for Human Faces, Even in Inanimate Objects

Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive specific, often meaningful images, such as faces, in

random or ambiguous visual patterns.

A common example is the man in the moon.

Some scientists attribute it to the fact that, as social beings, recognizing faces is so

important that we'd rather create one where it doesn't exist than miss a real.