What are some good facts about human psychology?

 

What are some good facts about human psychology?

I will try to give my best facts about human psychology while keeping it short. Let’s go. (Is worth your time for sure)

Here are 10 facts about human psychology

1. Memories bring down the importance of the moment.

We as humans have 2 different selves.

Evocative self and the experiential self.

Evocative self is making a decision based on memories.

The experiential self is making a decision based on your well-being importance.

There was an experiment, where the participants experienced 2 experiences:

1. 60 seconds with hands in cold water.
2. 60 seconds with hands in cold water+30 seconds with +1 degree water temperature.

And then they were asked to choose one to do it again. 80% of participants choose 2. But why, there is a lot more suffering in the second experienced than in the first one. They decided based on their memories, and memory is more like a picture than a video, it remembers only the end and the climax.

So the second experience has the same climax but a better end because it has warmer water, even tho the time is a lot longer. So our memories don’t care about the time of experience. And they are a source of biases.

We might think that the people in the experiment are masochists, but this is how most of us make decisions, based on memories that wake up sentiments, not based on logic.

There are more experiments that back up this result, so it is actually something real. So our evocative self is stronger than our experiential self, how we remember things is more important than how we will feel.

So, this nice quote is wrong: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.-Jeremy Bentham

Source: Fast thinking, slow thinking

2. People are not born statisticians. Take this experiment, you have to choose 1 part from each :

• 61% chances to win 520.000 $ or 63% chances to win 500.000 $
• 98% chances to win 520.000 $ or 100% chances to win 500.000$

Now you probably choose 61% in the first one and 100% in the second one. But why, 2% in the first situation is not worth 20.000 $ but in the second situation is. So you just showed your irrationality. It is fine, we all are.

Source: Fast thinking, slow thinking

3. 5 positive experiences counter the effect of 1 negative experience.

4. We are a car drawing hasty conclusions.

Chances are that you read: ABC and 121314

But you could as well read: A13C and 12B14

We neglect ambiguity.

5. When we enter / exit a door we forget what we were thinking.

6. A lot of us suffer from ‘Phantom Vibration Syndrome'; the feeling that your phone is vibrating while it actually isn't.

7. The will can be trained and is consumable.

8. We love new songs that are similar to what we've heard so far.

9. Habits are important on the road to success.

Why? Because are not requiring constant energy to maintain them. The beginning of a habit is extremely important tho.

10. We perceive personal concessions greater than they really are.

11. And lastly, pressing the upvote button will make your day better with 30%.

btw, this is how wins/losses are perceived.

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