Can you overcome depression by climbing to new mood heights? A brand new study by German researchers aims to answer this question. To do this, subjects with depression were randomly [...]
Do 9-ending prices really work? Are people really so stupid that they perceive a price of 99.99 euros as so much cheaper than a price of 100 euros? And do [...]
Approximately 5% of all people in Europe suffer from agoraphobia at least once in their lives (the 12-month prevalence is about 2%; Wittchen and Hoyer, 2011). Due to fear (of [...]
Anyone who successfully confronts his fear (e.g., in the context of cognitive behavioral therapy) builds neuronal "safety networks" in his brain. However, in many situations these safety networks still compete [...]
Does your smartphone make you dumb? Can the mere presence of a smartphone affect our intelligence? Does a smartphone that is next to us on the desk make it harder [...]
The Evoking Freedom Technique is one of the simplest and at the same time most effective influencing techniques that have been investigated by psychologists in studies so far. In most [...]
Whether it is social anxiety, animal phobia, agoraphobia or generalized anxiety disorder, some strategies from emotion regulation research can be successfully applied to almost all fears. The video presents helpful [...]
When someone asks us for a favor and provides a valid reason, we are more inclined to help. But in some situations it is already sufficient to present a quite dumb reason...
How we can be influenced by the "just one more"-technique. www.learningpsychology.net Author: Eskil Burck (degreed psychologist)
Should you touch a woman softly on her forearm when you ask her for a date? Keywords: Touch, Education, Dating, Willpower, Social Psychology, mind, Brain, Influence, Psychology Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist) https://learningpsychology.net/
