Did You Know Psychology – The Collection
Some time ago, I started a series called the “Did You Know” series. These posts are all about a certain psychological topic, and shed some light about interesting, funny or just plain weird phenomena. To make these easier to browse, I thought it would be nice to collect them in one place, so here they are! The Did You Know Series DYK #1: How to overcome a problem DYK #2: Interpreting dreams DYK #3: Smoking while Pregnant DYK #4: Just-World Fallacy DYK #5: Phobias DYK #6: Tetris a cure? DYK #7: Which works better, standardized or individualized therapy? DYK #8: What brain areas does a blind person use to read? DYK #9: Is Binge Eating a recognized mental illness? DYK #10: Would you rather let something bad happen than cause it? DYK #11: Drinking coffee...
10 Things You Should Know About Psychology
10. Psychology is the study of mind and behavior Psychology is the study of mental processes and behavior. The term comes from the Greek word psyche meaning “breath” , ” spirit” and ” soul”. The -logy part is derived from logia, meaning “study of.” It emerged from biology and philosophy and is closely linked to other disciplines such as sociology, medicine, linguistics and anthropology. 9. Psychology offers a range of career options Just a few of the possible career options include clinical psychology, developmental psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, forensic or health psychology and industrial-organizational psychology. 8. Psychology and scientific methods A common myth about...
Discovering Synesthesia – it’s not an illusion!
Since I’ve been insanely busy this week I totally forgot about writing a proper blog. Yoshi, a friend from India I met on Twitter, shared something interesting with me, and I thought I’d share it with you! I’d actually forgotten about this, a little. Watch this video: What’s really important is that you should know that when a synesthete sees a letter, they know perfectly well it is actually written in black ink, however, they associate a certain color with the letter. It’s not like the black is replaced with for instance yellow. It’s not like an illusion. I’m a synesthete, too. I first found out a few years ago, when playing Sudoku was all the rage. I mainly have synesthesia with numbers, I haven’t noticed I have...
Top 10 Most Influential Psychologists
In 2002, the American Psychological Association created a ranking of the 99 most influential psychologists . The rankings were based on amount of journal citations, introductory textbook citations. They also surveyed the 1725 members of the APA. The following list is an overview of that ranking survey. These are not just well-known people, they all made a significant contribution to psychology and our collective understanding of human behavior. They play an important role in the history of psychology. The attempt of this list was not to name who was the best, but instead focuses on the influence their work has had on psychology and on the culture as we now understand it. 10. Carl Jung Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist. He was an influential thinker...
Why We Should Stay Away from News, an article by Rolf Dobelli
This is an article I recently read in my newspaper. I suggest you read it – it’s something I highly agree with. Avoid News Towards a Healthy News Diet By Rolf Dobelli Prologue This article is the antidote to news. It is long, and you probably won’t be able to skim it. Thanks to heavy news consumption, many people have lost the reading habit and struggle to absorb more than four pages straight. This article will show you how to get out of this trap – if you are not already too deeply in it. News is to the mind what sugar is to the body We are so well informed and yet we know so little. Why? We are in this sad condition because 200 years ago we invented a toxic form of knowledge called “news.” The time has come to recognize...
Top 10 Death Traps for Psychologists
From early on in their training, psychologists are taught that they have certain “cognitive biases” to overcome. Like every other human, psychologists observe people and judge them by certain beliefs, ideas or attitudes they have. Because diagnosing people with a certain disorder is an enormous responsibility, they have to make sure they don’t judge them incorrectly. For instance, when an eccentric looking man, who speaks incoherently and in odd language, you might be easy to attribute it to a psychotic disorder, but it might as well be a schizoid personality disorder, which is something different altogether. These two disorders require very different sorts of treatment and if the person is misdiagnosed, it could be very harmful. Consequently,...
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