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Psychology of Will-full ignorance :

In her book, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, Margaret Heffernan, examines the cognitive mechanisms by which we choose, sometimes consciously but mostly not, to remain unseeing in situations where “we could know, and should know, but don’t know because it makes us feel better not to know.” Heffernan notes that “people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.” They’re particularly “resistant to changing what they know how to do, what they have expertise in and certainly what they have economic investment in.” we strive to reduce the pain, either by ignoring the evidence that proves we are wrong, or by reinterpreting evidence to support us. This is a summary of the article from misson.org explaining about the same. FOLLOW @psychologytribe for more psychology 💕.

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Overcome fear of public speaking by using these 6 psychological tricks. These ideas come from the Six Keys to Confident Presenting:

1.The more emphasis you put on the listener, the less emphasis you will have on how you look, how you sound, etc. 2.Get curious. Investigate and stay interested in the audience. Know why they are here to listen to you. 3.Think like a teacher. What’s the best way to organize and convey your information? How can you piece it together so it makes sense and is understandable? 4.Help your listeners to have the “aha” from your speaking. If your objective is to teach or to train, how will you know when you have succeeded? Make it easy for them to see why this information matters. 5.Emphasize their needs. If your listeners care about something you have not planned to address, it’s okay to say “I don’t know that; I will get back to you.” You don’t have to be adept and expert at everything, you just have to meet the needs of your audience. The more you do that, the less you will think about yourself. 6.Prepare some sort of closure for your audience so that they recognize some value in what they’ve heard. Don’t assume it; confirm it. The more you focus on the people listening to you, and the less you worry about what everyone is thinking about you, the less anxiety you will have and the more confident you will be in speaking. . It’s true that the mind can’t focus on two things at once. If you are thinking about them, you can’t be thinking about you

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Did you know? : Crying may reflect attachment styles, research suggests.

In her book "Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment" (Routledge, 2005), psychotherapist Judith Kay Nelson, PhD, summarizes past research and concludes that securely attached people are more comfortable expressing emotions and cry in ways that are considered normal and healthy, while those with insecure attachment may cry inappropriately — with easily activated, difficult-to-soothe tears. More recently, researchers from Tilburg University have found that people with "dismissive" attachment styles — or those who tend to avoid close relationships with others — were less likely to cry and tried harder to inhibit their tears than people with other attachment styles (Social Behavior and Personality, 2012). . The study also found that people with "preoccupied" styles — or those who might be clingy and overly dependent on others — cried more often than securely attached people. . Women of all attachment styles cried more than men FOLLOW @psychologytribe for more psychology ♥️

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✨Facts about sadness :

1. Johar argues that, "when someone is sad, slow, low pitched speech with weak high audio frequency energy is produced". Likewise, "low energy state of sadness attributes to slow tempo, lower speech rate and mean pitch". 2.An individual experiencing sadness may become quiet or lethargic, and withdraw themselves from others. An example of severe sadness is depression, a mood which can be brought on by major depressive disorder or persistent depressive disorder. . 3.Sadness is one of the "six basic emotions" described by Paul Ekman, along with happiness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust. 4. With sadness "screened off", people can become shallow and manic. 5. Sadness is part of the normal process of the child separating from an early symbiosis with the mother and becoming more independent. Every time a child separates a little more, he or she will have to cope with a small loss. . If the mother cannot allow the minor distress involved, the child may never learn how to deal with sadness by themselves. 6.Being attentive to, and patient with, one's sadness may also be a way for people to learn through solitude 7. Pupil size may be an indicator of sadness. A sad facial expression with small pupils is judged to be more intensely sad as the pupil size decreases.

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Fact : Fear is not as automatic as you think.

Fear is part instinct, part learned, part taught. . Some fears are instinctive: Pain, for example, causes fear because of its implications for survival. . Other fears are learned: We learn to be afraid of certain people, places, or situations because of negative associations and past experiences. A near-drowning incident, for example, may cause fear each time you get close to a body of water. . Other fears are taught: Cultural norms often dictate whether something should be feared or not. . Think, for example, about how certain social groups are feared and persecuted because of a societally-created impression that they are dangerous

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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙪𝙢 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚 (an amazing research method on social media)

In a typical Ultimatum game, one person (the divider) is in charge of dividing a resource between herself and another person (the recipient). Usually, the resource is an amount of money, and the divider is free to choose any division she wants. . The recipient can accept the divider's offer, in which case the money is split accordingly, or reject the offer. . If the offer is rejected, both players get nothing. In one of the most cited articles in the field of Behavioral Economic, Sanfey et al (2003) analyzed the brain processes behind recipients’ responses to unfair offers (in which the divider offers 30% or less). . It was found that unfair offers made by human partners were rejected at a significantly higher rate than offers made by a computer, suggesting that participants had a stronger emotional reaction to unfair offers from humans than to the same offers from a computer. . These findings were supported by neuroimaging results. . The magnitude of activation in regions of the brain that are known to be involved in negative emotional states like pain and distress was significantly greater for unfair offers from human beings, compared with unfair offers from computer counterparts. Other researches have also proved that there is a lack of non verbal interaction (the most used and important form of social interaction) and lack of cognitive processing required for interactions on social media.

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In order to connect lovingly and empathically, your prefrontal cortex has to send a signal to the amygdala (the brain’s alarm center) to switch off your automatic “fight or flight” response. . People who endured childhood trauma, neglect, abuse, or other experiences that threaten secure attachment may have a harder time switching off the “fight-flight-freeze” system—or feeling safe enough to love. . This reticence can be overcome with therapy or, sometimes, by a partner who repeatedly demonstrates trustworthiness and care. . However, if your repeated expressions of care are not reciprocated by any heart-softening in your partner, it could be time to consider moving on.

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Happy valentines !! 

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In 2012, a study found that dogs oriented toward their owner or a stranger more often when the person was pretending to cry than when they were talking or humming. .

When the stranger pretended to cry, rather than approaching their usual source of comfort, their owner, dogs sniffed, nuzzled and licked the stranger instead. . The dogs' pattern of response was behaviorally consistent with an expression of emphatic concern.

This is also why psychologists suggest that pets can be great support for people suffering from a mental health crisis.

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Let me remind you that childhood ignorance leaves really bad scars. . . . Go play with your children and enjoy life together .

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Researchers Hodges & Carron grouped people into teams, manipulated whether they had high expectations for themselves or low self-expectancy, and then measured their performance in actual games. . As it turns out, teams with high self-expectancy perform significantly better. . But more importantly, even in rigged games when they ended up losing no matter what, the teams who expected better of themselves were much more likely to bounce back from an unfair loss and perform even better during the next game. Teams who'd been conditioned by the researchers to expect less of themselves resigned themselves to losing—whether they could have beaten the next team or not. There are several studies which have produced similar findings on the power of raising expectations in order to raise performances. . Israeli Defense Force recruits were randomly told that they had been assigned to either "High", "Regular" or "Unknown" conditions, and the soldiers who believed they were in the high group did much better on objective tasks like rifle and navigation field tests. Hockey players who worked to raise their self-expectancy shot with greater accuracy during games. . The list goes on and on. As basketball legend and intuitive cognitive-behavioral psychologist Michael Jordan once said, "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

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Why marijuana is present in all three👇👇

Marijuana has depressant, stimulant, and hallucinogenic effects. It may promote relaxation, enhance mood, and increase sensory perception. Marijuana users may also experience the typical side effects of depressant, stimulant, and hallucinogenic drugs. Anyone with concerns about their marijuana use can speak to a doctor to find out what support is available.

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While many different studies have reported such effects, research--conducted on this topic by Fitzsimons and Bargh (2003) is especially revealing.

In one such study people at an airport were approached and were asked to think either of a good friend or of someone with whom they worked. . Then, they were asked down to write the initials of the of the person of whom they were thinking and to answer a series of questions about that person (e.g., describe his or her appearance; how long they had known that person and his or her age).

Finally, participants were asked if they would be willing to help the researcher by answering a longer set of questions. . It was those who thought about a friend would be more about a friend would trigger the goal of helping-something we often do for friends. .

This is precisely what happened: More people who thought about a friend than a coworker were willing to help.

Note that they were not asked to help their friend; rather, they were asked to assist a stranger-the researcher. . But still, thoughts of the friend affected their current behavior.

Findings such as these, and those reported in a growing number of other studies (Shah, 2003) suggest that we can be strongly influenced by other people when they are not physically present on the scene and trying to affect us, as long as they are psycho- logically present (in our thoughts).

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Happy valentines week ! These tips might help you improve your relationship. Share it with anyone who needs it. Share it with your partner as well ;)

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Think positive✨

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Your daily PRAYER.

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Is you partner opposite or similar to you? 🤔 . .

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 Music heals. . . . Listen to these amazing songs and their lyrics. They're powerful enough to lift you up. . . . Recovery cant be done all alone. It requires support. . . Not all humans will give you the kind of motivating, uplifting, strong guide to your step forward that you need. . . But songs like these contain everything you need. The artists have themselves faced mental health issues. . . . So do listen and tell us if you liked it and whether it helped or not... . . . Follow us for more such posts