The human psyche remains one of the biggest mysteries for researchers. However, every day there are some discoveries in the world, and the world of psychology is no exception.
The following facts about the psychological characteristics of a person may surprise you very much:
1. When it comes to the health effects of placebos, capsules have been found to work more effectively than pills, and injections are often more effective than capsules (based on how positive the placebo has a therapeutic effect)
2. The placebo effect works even when a person consciously takes a substance without obvious healing properties.
3. People can go much longer without food than without sleep.
4. Even a small amount of noise will cause your pupils to dilate.
5. By the age of 60, you will have lost half of your taste buds.
6. If saliva does not dissolve any food, then you will not be able to taste it.
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7. Our brain constantly interacts with our stomach. Therefore, our emotions, especially negative ones, affect the well-being of our stomach.
8. With the advent of the Internet, fewer people are turning to religion.
9. Chewing gum activates memory, so you can earn high scores on tests.
10. Purple or lavender has a calming effect. It is especially good to use it in the bedroom.
11. According to Freud's doctrine of the stages of psychosexual personality development, at the phallic stage, children begin to take an interest in their genitals, the genitals of their parents and friends. At this stage, girls, discovering the absence of a male genital organ, begin to experience the so-called "penis envy", accompanied by a feeling of resentment.
12. Our short-term memory is much more limited than we thought. The duration of information storage in short-term memory is 20 seconds, and it can process only 5 to 9 things at a time.
13. Red makes a person more sexually attractive to the opposite sex, and men in blue are more attractive to women.
14. Most people tend to be late judgments, that is, they have a tendency to predict the outcome of an event before it happens.
15. It is estimated that an average person thinks 70 thousand thoughts daily.
16. It takes on average 66 days to form a new habit.
17. If the interlocutor looks into your eyes 60% of the time of the conversation, then he is bored, 80% - he likes you, 100% - he threatens you.
18. Excessive stress can change brain cells, structure and function.
19. The words used when interviewing eyewitnesses to describe an event they saw can influence how they later remember the event.
20. The feeling of falling that sometimes occurs before bed is actually due to the fact that we fall asleep too quickly, and our brain thinks that we are dying. Therefore, it feels like the brain is giving itself an electric shock.
21. If you are in a bad mood, then a fake smile will make you feel much better and even make you happier.
22. Clear skin, bright big eyes, pink lips and shiny hair not only attract men and serve as an indicator of health, but also indicate that a woman is capable of becoming a suitable partner for procreation.
23. It is not at all necessary that a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder is a germophobe (one who is afraid of contracting germs through contact with another person or object). This disorder is associated with obsessive, unnecessary thoughts and associations from unrelated events.
24. When you yawn, and immediately after that someone else yawns, it means that you were looked at and / or he likes you.
25. It is a myth that people use only 10% of their brain capacity at any given time. In fact, we can use about 35% of our brain at a time.
26. When we are fully focused on performing a task, our brain blocks other things, forcing us not to notice anything around us. This is called selective attention.
27. In some people, the brain produces more chemicals than others. This is why some people are considered more emotional than others.
28. Intelligence depends to a certain extent on heredity.
29. On the one hand, the placebo effect can make a person think he or she is recovering, but on the other hand, it can hurt. If a person takes medicines that he does not need, then when he really needs them, the medicines will not work, even if they are real.
30. According to T. Chamorro-Premuzic and E. Fernhem, certain character traits, and not mental abilities, can affect academic performance. In fact, conscientious but closed introverts tend to perform better than others.
31. Our reflex reactions are controlled not by the brain, but by the spinal cord. The nerves that run through the spine come to the rescue when the body needs a lightning-fast reaction, for example, when touching something hot.
32. Members of the same family smell the same. That is why a person cannot continue his race with his relatives. This is nature's natural way of avoiding genetic mutations.
33. In addition to being sexually attractive, red can also be a sign of aggression and scare people away.
34. The brain itself has no pain receptors. This fact allows neurosurgeons to perform operations on it when the patient is awake. During such manipulations, the feedback from the patient is extremely important so as not to damage important areas of the brain, for example, those that are responsible for speech.