Imagine a white tiger. Imagine the white tiger pouting, putting on red lipstick and taking a selfie. Did you have a good laugh? Why do you think you were able to imagine the most preposterous thing in the world? It is fascinating how the knowledge of knowing works. There are things you think you know …
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My Parents are Imposters!
Arthur had been in a near-fatal automobile accident. He hit his head in the accident, so hard that he lay in a coma for about three weeks. His survival was not at all assured. When he finally woke up, he started intensive rehabilitative therapy. Arthur gradually learned to talk, walk, recalled the past and seemed …
Room Service through an Emoji!
The use of emoticons has evolved to not only better the experience of communicating but also to replicate the conventional face-to-face communication through the convenience of computers and phones. This evolution of emoticons has been so universal that a hotel in New York has allowed customers to order room service by texting relevant emojis! To …
Anosognosia
A man lays in a hospital with his left hand paralysed. At nights he'd keep falling out of the bed. Every time he crashed on the floor, the hospital staff would hoist him up only to hear a loud 'thump' again. After this happened several times, his doctor, Dr Oliver Sacks, asked the man why …
The Productivity Jam!
The best part about being a student of Psychology is that I find the coolest and the easiest hacks to improve my personal presence. Obviously these hacks don't come on a platter. https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7WIpD2wiA4qNyqMU/giphy.gif What I managed to do was come up with a technique that is based on a mixture of conditioning, learning and productivity …
ISN’T THE VOLUME TOO HIGH?
Do you like your music a little louder than your introvert sibling? Or do you like it a little lower than your extrovert friend? Is it too weird if I say that your choice in volume could tell if you are an introvert or an extrovert? A popular study by Russell G Geen concludes that …
Baby: The Best Salesman!
This article is about how your attention span affects your judgement. Stick through to understand how easily our brains are manipulated! We all know what attention is. It is the selective perception of stimuli around us. When you're reading this you're not consciously aware of the fan hovering in the background. Attention is thus understood …
Colour Psychology
I am a huge fan of thriller, sci-fi, and suspense. I am a Dan Brown person or a Mentalist person or perhaps a Sherlock person. So when I caught myself binging over this romantic-satire called Jane the Virgin, I started wondering and questioning. And then it hit me- it is the aesthetic colour scheme. That's …
Did Curiosity Kill the Cat?
Curiosity is considered to not only be an information-seeking technique but also a survival instinct by many philosophers and psychologists. Curiosity has also been called an emotion by a few scholars. What I have tried to do is distinguish between information-seeking and curiosity. Explained at the end is a concept that tells what your response …
Candy or Therapy?
"Hi mother! I think I might need therapy." I chirp this out loud as if I am five all over again asking mom, again, for the most expensive, the most colourful candy in the entire store. Except I had spent months deciding on this. While coming to terms with the how and the when and …
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