The Peculiar Psyche
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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The ‘Invisible Gorilla’ Brain | Why You Don’t See What’s Right in Front of You (Inattentional Blindness)
Inattentional Blindness is the failure to perceive an unexpected stimulus that is…
The Weight of Shadows | How Low Expectations Warp Reality
"For to be and to think are one and the same." -…
The Thanksgiving Survival Glitch | Why Your Past is a Liar (The Turkey Illusion)
"The past is certain, the future obscure." - Thales of Miletus The…
The ‘I’m an Expert!’ Brain | Why Incompetent People Think They’re Brilliant (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where the least competent people…
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The ‘Temporal Zoom’ Brain | Why You Think You Just Started (The Telescoping Effect)
"The true chronology of our lives is locked inside the…
The ‘Hidden-Failure’ Brain | Why You Study Winners and Still Fail (Survivorship Bias)
Survivorship Bias is the logical error of focusing on the…
The ‘Loudest Voice’ Brain | Why You Fear Planes More Than Stairs (The Availability Heuristic)
"What the human being is best at doing is interpreting…
The ‘Happy-Then-Empty’ Brain | Why Your Joy Fades Fast (The Hedonic Treadmill)
The Hedonic Treadmill is the tendency for humans to quickly…
The ‘Center of the Universe’ Brain | Why You Think Everyone Is Watching You (The Spotlight Effect)
The Spotlight Effect is the psychological tendency to overestimate the…
The ‘Pretty is Good’ Brain | Why You Trust Attractive People (The Halo Effect)
The Halo Effect is a cognitive bias in which an…
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…
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…
The ‘I’m an Expert!’ Brain | Why Incompetent People Think They’re Brilliant (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where the least…
The ‘I Knew It!’ Brain | Why You Only Believe What You Already Think (Confirmation Bias)
Confirmation Bias is the unconscious tendency to favor information that…