Psychology Facts

1. Being alone can harm your health more than you think.

2. We're most creative at night and less so during the day.

3. Staying home alone for a long time can be as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

4. People tend to point fingers at someone when something bad happens.

5. People in powerful positions often struggle to understand how others feel.

6. More young people, between 18 and 33 years old, experience depression than any other age group.

7. Traveling is good for your brain and reduces the risk of heart disease and depression.

8. Cognitive dissonance happens when you have two conflicting beliefs and change one to match the other.

9. The broken heart condition is also known as stress cardiomyopathy and can seriously hurt your heart temporarily.

10. Authority can affect a person's mind similarly to a traumatic brain injury.

11. People read faster with long lines of text but prefer shorter lines.

12. Bigger groups often make worse decisions than smaller ones.

13. If you can't stop thinking at night, try writing it down to ease your mind and help you relax.

14. Women have fewer pain receptors than men but can endure more pain.

15. Repetition physically changes the brain by creating new connections between brain cells.

16. Most people can handle between 50 to 150 close relationships or friendships.

17. Relationships that start between ages 16 and 28 are more likely to be strong and long-lasting.

18. Emotional pain is etched into your memory more than physical pain and can influence your behavior significantly.

19. Having a backup plan (Plan B) can decrease the chances of your main plan (Plan A) succeeding.

20.People remember the beginning and end of events more easily than the middle.

21. In the 7 minutes before you pass away, your memories may appear in a dream-like way.

22. Having brothers or sisters can help you get along better with friends.

23. How someone treats employees says a lot about their character.

24. Tears of joy usually come from the right eye, while tears of sadness tend to come from the left.

25. Food made by others often tastes better, even if the recipe is the same.

26. Hearing something negative can overshadow five positive memories.

27. Eating food without preservatives can boost your IQ by up to 14%.

28. You think more about specific people than big problems.

29. Before passing away, your brain remains active for about 7 minutes.

30. Worrying that something bad will happen is less stressful than not knowing what will happen.

31. What your mind thinks can affect your body's cells in the same way.

32. When one law is too strict, people often want to break more laws.

33. London cab drivers have bigger brains because they have to know every street in London.

34. Our brains naturally try to make boring speeches more interesting.

35. You tend to enjoy songs you listened to in high school more.

36. Memories are more like jigsaw puzzle pieces than clear pictures.

37. When you feel like you don't have enough of something, like money, you can become obsessed with it.

38. A scientist named Thomas H. Morgan found that chromosomes carry inherited information.

39. Your brain is more creative when you're sleepy.

40. Being hopeful about the future can protect you from physical and mental illness.

41. People who watch crime shows often think crime happens more often than it does in real life.

42. Your use of social media is influenced by how your mind works.

43. There's a scientific reason why you sometimes feel like your phone vibrated even when it didn't.

44. Some people act like they're on a reality TV show in their own lives.

45. Feeling like you're in a TV reality show is called the Truman Syndrome.

46. Seeing the good in others highlights your positive qualities, while seeing the bad reflects your negative traits.

47. Depression often comes from your thoughts, creating problems that aren't real.

48. Being happy around people can make you even happier.

49. Believing you had a good night's sleep can make your brain think you did.

50. The music you listen to can change how you see the world.

51. People value things more when they build them themselves, known as the 'IKEA effect.'

52. There was once a man named Billy Milligan who had 24 different personalities.

53. Money can buy happiness, but only to a certain extent.

54. Retrograde amnesia makes you forget many injuries.

55. Most colors have a wavelength, but magenta doesn't; your brain sees it as "not green."

56. Magenta is unique; it lacks a physical wavelength, so your brain interprets it as "not green."

57. When we're extremely happy, we sometimes scream, and our brains can't tell if it's from happiness or sadness.

58. While you sleep, fluid washes away waste from your brain, including amyloid-beta protein.

59. The world's fastest supercomputer needs a lot of power, but your brain operates on much less and is way faster.

60. Exercise can slow down brain aging, potentially delaying it by a decade.

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