Tag: Psychology

An 8-Year-Old Girl Developed An Unusual Friendship With A Gift-Giving Crow

Most of us probably don't think of crows as being warm and friendly creatures, if anything stories like "The Raven" have painted crows as ominous birds. For an 8-year-old girl from Seattle, though, crows are her friends and they share a deep bond that has resulted in the birds bringing her dozens of gifts. When she was four, Gabi Mann started dropping scraps of...

This Invention Can Extract Honey Without Disrupting Bees

Collecting honey is not only a laborious process for people, but it's not especially a walk in the park for the bees either. Those bee keepers where protective gear for a reason. A revolutionary new invention is changing all that by eliminating the need for people to go tampering with bee hives through a spigot system that taps right into the honeycomb. The product called...
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This 80 Year Old Psychology Test Can Reveal Your Deepest Impulses

Getting a glimpse at someone's innermost hidden self is a consistent goal in the field of psychology, and one of the biggest advances came...

Want to Heal Your Body & Mind? Try the Japanese Art of Forest Bathing

If there were a way to feel happier, boost immunity, and lower blood pressure all at the same time, you’d feel like it’s too...

Why Some People are Still in Denial Over Climate Change & Evolution

Author Jonathan Swift once said: “You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into.” Three hundred years later, man...

10 Psychological Exercises That Will Challenge What You Believe In

Sometimes we encounter people, places, and things that challenge our perspectives and make us question everything. This is a healthy part of life that...

Does This Photo Freak You Out? Your Evolutionary Survival Instinct is Kicking in

Does the image of a lotus pod give you the creeps and make you want to lock your bedroom door and hide under the...

Tech Whistleblowers Reveal Psychological Tricks Used to Manipulate You

A book written by Nir Eyal, a 37-year-old entrepreneur, almost seems like it could've come out of a cliché dystopian sci-fi story. The book...

Why Everything we Know About Addiction Might be Wrong

100 years ago, drugs were banned in the United States, yet this ban hasn’t done anything to reduce or eradicate addiction. How did that...

Got a Dark Sense of Humor? You’re Not Depraved, Just Smart According to Science

If you're the kind of person who reads a news story about a person who choked to death during an eating competition and comments...

The One Thing to Convert Conservatives to Liberals, According to a Yale Study

Yale scientists recently conducted a study about politics and psychology that had some interesting results. While the university’s scientists have long been aware of...

Could Religion Actually Make Children Less Generous?

The idea that religious individuals are more compassionate, giving, and morally sound than the rest of us is one that has been embedded in...

Not Scared of Hurricanes, These People Abandon Logic and Stay Put. But Why?

Hurricane season is here, and as usual, it has entered the party with a bang. As it makes landfall in the Carolinas, Hurricane Florence...

What Makes Us Happy, According to a 75-Year Harvard Study

Beginning in 1938, Harvard psychologists set out to determine what factors had the greatest impact on the overall happiness of men. They didn't try...