Useless Psychology Facts
Studies done by the Psychology Department of Depauw University show that the principal reason people lie is to avoid punishment.
There is no one who does not dream. Those who claim to have no dreams, laboratory tests have determined, simply forget their dreams more easily than others.
The Psychology Department of Dayton University reports that loud talk can be ten times more distracting than the sound of a jackhammer. Loud, incessant chatter can make a listener nervous and irritable, say the findings, and even start him on the road to sanity.
The color combination with the strongest visual impact is black on yellow. Next follow black on white, yellow on black, white on black, dark blue on white, and white on dark blue.
Man is the only animal that cries.
Men laugh longer, more loudly, and more often than women.
A list of odd phobias:
- Ailurophobia—fear of cats.
- Androphobia—fear of men.
- Apiphobia—fear of bees.
- Astraphobia—fear of storms.
- Aviophobia—fear of flying.
- Baccilophobia—fear of microbes.
- Ballistophobia—fear of bullets.
- Belonephobia—fear of needles and sharp, pointed objects
- Clinophobia—fear of beds.
- Gephydrophobia—fear of crossing bridges.
- latrophobia—fear of doctors.
- Nyctophobia—fear of night.
- Ombrophobia—fear of rain.
- Otophobia—fear of opening one's eyes.
- Peccatophobia—fear of sinning
- Sitophobia—fear of food.
- Taphephobia—fear of being buried alive.
- Thalassophobia—fear of the ocean.
- Trichophobia—fear of hair.
- Vestiphobia—fear of clothing.
The term “doing one's own thing” was coined by the Gestalt psychologist Fritz Perls. His “Gestalt Prayer” reads:
“I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.”
The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers are seven digits long.