Category: Daily Insight
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Your Body and Mind Have Very Different Learning Styles
Have you ever noticed your body reacting to a situation before your brain has even had a chance to process what is happening? Imagine you are in a new, healthy relationship. Your mind knows this person is kind and reliable. However, the moment they are five minutes late for a text, your heart starts racing and your
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Synchronized Brains Are Proven to Make People Feel Closer
This may sound like “scientists have finally proven something we’ve already known from real-life experience”. But here are the nuances we tend to ignore. Social connection is more than an effort, skill, or personality; it might be a matter of neural alignment. A 2022 study at UCLA integrated neuroimaging with social network analysis to explore
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We Regret More about What We Didn’t do Than Mistakes
Would you regret the chances you missed or the mistakes you’ve made? Unsurprisingly, many people regret the things they didn’t do, not the things they did but failed at, as they near the end of life. In psychology, what we didn’t take the chance to do may haunt us much longer and more strongly than
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Repeated Emotional Events Make Stronger Memories; Not the Neutral Ones
Have you noticed that those repeated emotional moments (usually negative ones) tend to stick longer? Waking up at 3 am because of embarrassing moments in college, or someone wronged us in the past. Why would we not remember “happy” or neutral events? Rather, we tend ot cringe towards those most awkward, scared, or shamed moments? While
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Why Do Beginners Look More Confident Than Veterans?
Have you ever noticed how sometimes beginners can be confidently wrong about things they barely understand? But industry-savvy with years of experience seem to be too humble? This is the Dunning–Kruger effect, a classic psychological theory. First proposed in 1999, the theory describes how we perceive our own competence. It is not a judgment itself,
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