Psychology 2023, March

Scientists have found that the human brain is able to "think out" a melody and perceive it as complete if it ends in a certain way. This is how our brain tries to “predict the future”. The same phenomenon, according to researchers, concerns the thinking out of speech and other phenomena occurring in time

Tall men and slender women were more successful financially

The alcoholic's wife - who is she? What types of alcoholic wives are there?

The war in Ukraine and why Russia and Ukraine showed such cruelty towards each other

Stanford experiment. How American psychologist Philip Zimbardo proved that any good person, under certain circumstances, turns into a beast

"I believe, because it is absurd" - such a maxim is attributed to the early Christian theologian Tertullian. These words can be considered the motto of the Middle Ages. Even a small fraction of modern knowledge was inaccessible to people of those times, emotions ruled over the intellect, therefore they relied exclusively on God. Let's try to understand the psychology of medieval man and understand his way of thinking

Who among us has not seen a shocking video on the Internet when passengers, while waiting for a train, calmly watch a man fall onto the rails and run over by a carriage. Why is this happening, and how are we likely to behave in this situation? This is what we tried to find out

In 2019, the rating of attitudes towards Joseph Stalin broke all records. In April, the Levada Center published the results of a poll, which showed that 70% of Russians fully approve of his policies. What's more: the same studies show that the level of trust in the "father of nations" among compatriots is constantly growing. And yet, there are not many politicians with such ambiguous assessments of their personality as the “Leader, Friend and Teacher”. Psychologists are categorical: Stalin had deviations. What - I'll try

What is the connection between children's thinking and science, or rather, resistance to its conclusions? Alexander Markov talks about it

If you think that you cannot be manipulated, then you are mistaken twice. First, anyone can be manipulated. Secondly, it means that you do not know anything about manipulative techniques, do not know how to recognize them, and therefore, you are probably manipulated very often. Unless, of course, you yourself are not a "psychological magician" by nature

What privileges do people with a good sense of humor have? For example, this quality can serve as an advertisement to attract the opposite sex

Kazanka, or Kazan prison psychiatric hospital of the NKVD of the USSR. A very secret hospital of the Soviet punitive psychiatry. The first in the "country of the happiest workers." First in the world. The neutralization of the unwanted by means of cerebralism, however, was always and everywhere. And in the USA, and in China, and in Germany

What is depression? What are its symptoms and causes? They are all rooted in deep childhood

Unfunny jokes made by a man cause more serious harm to his image than a woman who jokes unsuccessfully - especially in the office

A meta-analysis found that psychopathic traits appear in 4.5 percent of the adult population, most often in company directors, lawyers and prisoners

New experiments help explain why bankers, who easily steal from clients and investors, are just as easy to part with money for charity

Polish researchers find out what is the determining factor behind people's persuasion not to get vaccinated against coronavirus infection

A study in the US, UK, Australia and Canada found that people who knowingly violate restrictions imposed by coronavirus have certain common characteristics and motivations

Using artificial intelligence, scientists were able to identify factors that predict suicidal behavior in adolescents and students. One of them turned out to be problems with self-esteem

Scientists have found that chronic pain can affect not only the physical condition, but also the psyche of a person, determining his feelings, thoughts and beliefs

According to the scientific method, even seemingly obvious concepts require repeated testing. This time, scientists have confirmed in practice a trivial idea - blind faith in science only aggravates the individual's susceptibility to pseudoscientific "facts." But there is also good news: if the test subjects were simply asked to critically perceive the information before the experiment, the degree of trust in fake news, albeit in scientific language, dropped sharply

Psychologists from the United States have found that if parents are in financial difficulties, they are much less likely to communicate with their children than better-off fathers and mothers

Statistics show that the proliferation of short-term rentals on Airbnb does not directly affect the crime rate in the area

Russian scientists have come to the conclusion that reports of some people that they have met with aliens may be nothing more than the so-called lucid dreaming

Scientists have found that those who play games on a smartphone because of boredom may be more exposed to their harmful influences than those who do it for other reasons

It also turned out that people prefer to start relationships with acquaintances, rather than look for a couple on the Internet or in public places

Researchers from the United States studied the anxious behavior of male and female rats, identifying biological factors that influence the development of such patterns. They believe these findings can be applied to humans as well

Moreover, such a phenomenon, as found by American scientists, is observed throughout a woman's life

This is the conclusion reached by psychologists from France, who found that the subjective assessment of the level of their own critical thinking by supporters of the belief in conspiracy theory does not correspond to objective tests

Surveys and research of the brains of volunteers helped to find an area that is related to the spirituality and religiosity of a person

The name of the American PR specialist, public relations specialist and Freud's nephew Edward Bernays is unknown to anyone today. But at one time he was called "the father of social relations." It was he who made today's world the way we know it - the world of consumption. It happened in the 1920s in the USA

In ancient times, people were much more anxious about dreams. Today it is the lot of mystics and depth psychotherapists

“You can eat everything except the Moon and its reflection in the water,” says a Chinese proverb. Evil tongues altered it: "The Chinese eat everything that has four legs, except tables, and everything that flies, except airplanes." In connection with the coronavirus, which is believed to be caused by the consumption of bats, the world has been swept by another wave of racism towards Chinese citizens. And after we all found ourselves on the brink of a global catastrophe, this attitude can be understood, but still not accepted. After all, people n

Tattoos, types, their meaning. Prison tattoos and yakuza tattoos

Art-butt is a crude art, one of the types of which is the painting of the mentally ill

The famous psychologist and writer Alice Miller analyzes the relationship of little Adolf Hitler with his parents in an attempt to find an explanation for the inhuman cruelty of the Fuhrer in his childhood

How wicked was little Hitler? What was the relationship between Adolf Hitler and his parents. The famous psychologist and writer Alice Miller analyzes this in an attempt to find an explanation for the inhuman cruelty of the Fuhrer in his childhood

Murder maniacs - psychology, classification, examples: Andrey Chikatilo, Anatoly Slivko, Richard Keyes and others

The lottery is known to be the surest way to count the optimists, but poker is even better. As, however, and any other game of chance. No wonder players are called drug addicts, and passion is called a needle

“After elections and after marriage, you rarely get what you want,” said American actor and journalist Will Rogers. It was at the beginning of the last century, but these words are still relevant now. So why do candidates fail to deliver on their promises, and what tricks do they use to get their coveted votes?