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The ‘Phantom Pixel’ Brain? Why Your Digital Self Feels Literally Real?
The Phantom Pixel Brain is the reason you feel a literal jolt when your phone slips or a pang of anxiety when a digital avatar is criticized. Psychology suggests our…
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A Message for the New Year from Psyness
The transition to a new year is a collective psychological reset. Your…
The ‘Mind Over Reality’ Brain | How Your Expectations Force People to Behave Exactly As You Predict (Self-Fulfilling Prophecy)
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy is a prediction that comes true not because it…
The ‘They’re Just Lazy!’ Brain | Why We Judge Others, But Excuse Ourselves (Fundamental Attribution Error)
The Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) is the tendency to assign internal, dispositional…
The ‘Happy-Then-Empty’ Brain | Why Your Joy Fades Fast (The Hedonic Treadmill)
The Hedonic Treadmill is the tendency for humans to quickly return to…
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Deja Vu | Glitch in the Matrix or Your Brain’s Re-Run Button? (Very Nice!)
MYou walk into a new coffee shop, take a sip…
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Ping! Buzz! Ding! Sound familiar? It's the symphony of the…