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Showing posts tagged psychology
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Random Fact of the Day
The most common time for breakups is around three to five months.
*Friendship Between Nations (FBN) conducts meticulous, exhaustive, and frankly pain-staking research to ensure the Random Fact of the Day is 100% accurate. To read more about today’s RFOTD click here.
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Random Fact of the Day
According to a recent study, Facebook makes you overestimate how happy your friends are which, in turn, makes you more depressed.
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Loco for Locus!
Locus of Control Test ResultsInternal Locus (54%) Individual believes that their life is defined more by their decisions and internal drive.
External Locus (46%) Individual believes that their life is defined more by genetics, environment, fate, or other external factors.
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Phrase of the Week: the Freud Series
e.g., Paul was a great dancer and all, but I could not take one more minute of his anal sadism.“anal sadism”
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This Happened
I’m sitting in my Human Development class right now, furiously taking notes, and I just realized I wrote the following sentence:
He gets such a good feeling from defecation.
Oh Freud… you always bring the lulz!
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Jastrow Size Optical Illusion
*The following is courtesy of illusionsetc.blogspot.com
The Jastrow illusion is an optical illusion discovered by the American psychologist Joseph Jastrow in 1889. In this image, the two figures are identical, although the bottom one appears to be larger.
So you look at the above and say OK maybe they are the same size. You can even see that it is true. How about the photo below, is it possible that these two are the same size?
Even knowing that the two above are the same size it is hard to believe. Look at them how is it possible for them to be the same size? Well you don’t have to take my word for it, check out the video below. This time Seeing is believing!
Filmed at the Hong Kong Science Museum by YouTube.com user kennsiu.
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The Psychology of Kissing
*Data courtesy of Psychology Today
MEN
The testosterone in saliva—and stimulation of our highly sensitive lips and tongues—may help trigger sex drive. Men exploit this, using kissing to induce sexual desire in women. Men may also unconsciously use kissing to assess the level of estrogen in a woman’s saliva to determine her stage in the ovulation cycle in her fertility.
Men are more likely than women to initiate west, open-mouthed, saliva-exchanging tongue kisses—since their senses of taste and smell are less acute, they need bigger, sloppier samples to gather enough information to assess compatibility.
The lips are nature’s mood ring. They flush darker when a person is aroused, signaling receptivity. Men are attracted to women with naturally large lips, whicch signal arousal and openness. Since lip plumpness peaks at age 14 in females, full lips also connote youth and good health.
WOMEN
Kissing drives up levels of oxytocin, which promotes attachment and bonding. The novelty of kissing someone new may release dopamine, which fosters romantic love. Women exploit this, using kissing to promote bonding. Women also kiss to assess the health of the relationship: Kissing is a good barometer of how happy a couple is.
Kissing evolved as a mate-assessment tool—a way for men and women to try each other out, to literally taste each other before committing. Women prefer demure, closed-mouthed kisses—since their senses of taste and smell are acute, they don’t need a lot to assess compatibility.
On a man, too much plump indicates a lack of masculinity and dominance. Women prefer men with medium-size lips: thick enough to convey compassion and friendliness, but not so large as to appear feminine.
