by david allan van nostrand | Aug 30, 2021 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, Psychology
Lying and the ability to detect lies are related skills. Knowing when someone is lying comes in very handy in poker games when an opponent is trying to steal the pot by bluffing. Did you know good bluffers are better than lousy bluffers at detecting when someone is...
by david allan van nostrand | Aug 2, 2021 | Conformity, Human Behavior, Psychology
Monkey see, monkey do is an American English idiom that says children learn by imitating what they see others do. Some etymologists trace the origin to an old African folk tale about a traveling hat salesman who took a nap under a tree. While he was sleeping, his...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 7, 2021 | Items in the News, Psychology
In 800 BC, near a town named Delphi, a Greek shepherd saw his herd of goats behaving strangely near a deep crack in the ground where steamy vapors were rising from the hole. When he came to take a closer look, he inhaled the fumes and began to have strange visions of...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 12, 2021 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, Psychology
A team of Harvard researchers led by Adam Mastroianni and Daniel Gilbert conducted two experiments to investigate the dynamics of two-way conversations. In the first, they surveyed 805 online study subjects about their most recent face-to-face conversation with a...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 5, 2021 | Conformity, Misinformation traps, Psychology
Goldilocks went for a walk in the forest. She came upon a house and knocked on the door. When no one answered, she walked right in and saw three bowls of porridge. Hungry, she tasted the porridge from the first bowl. “This porridge is too hot!” she said,...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 14, 2020 | Human Behavior, Psychology
Test your ability to focus. As you watch this one-minute video of people passing a ball back and forth, count the number of times the people in white pass the ball. CLICK HERE TO WATCH IT NOW The video was created by psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher...
