The human brain is a fascinating, complex mechanism that continues to puzzle us to this day. So in an attempt to shed some light on it, at least, from a psychological perspective, certified coaching practitioner Elisabeth Donatella, aka Coach Lisy, has started an educational video series on TikTok.
It's called "Psychological Facts You Didn't Know About Yourself."
Sharing everything she has learned through meticulously researching the subject, Coach Lisy answers such interesting questions, like "Why do we forget things the moment we walk into a room to get them?" or "Why do we prefer to park our car next to another one in an almost empty lot?"
Continue scrolling and check them out!
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It takes 5 positive things to outweigh 1 negative thing. Your brain has "negativity bias." This is why you quickly forget that someone praised you but keep dwelling that someone else made fun of you for something.
Your brain wants you to be lazy. Conserving energy is 1 of your brains top priorities. Its been 1 of the essential things for humans for survival.
You forget what you went into a room for as soon as you get there. Because of something called the "doorway effect." The act of walking through the doorway makes you forget because you're changing your environment.
You're programmed to love the music that you listened to the most in high school. The music that you like most hits you with dopamine and other "feel good chemicals." Age 12 to 22 everything feels more important, so we tent to emphasize those years the most and hang on to those musical memories.
You mimic people that you're interacting with, sometimes without realizing it. Mimicking someone can make them like you more. This is called: the chameleon effect. This can be in a form of copying someones facial expressions and also their speech patterns and accents.
Omgosh! I do this too much, my accent changes. And sometimes people think I'm mocking them, but I'm not.
Your turn the volume off or lower it when you drive in unfamiliar places. In moments when you are focusing your attention on listening you are less aware of the visual information that your brain is getting.
You don't take the last piece of pizza or donut. Because you don't feel like you have the right. Specialists called this phenomenon the diffusion of entitlement.
You hold the door open for other people. Scientists have found this goes beyond us just trying to be polite. Meaning: we are all trying to spend less energy doing things. This show that we do try to treat others the way we want to be treated.
How is me holding the door open for others trying to use less energy doing things.
You are more creative when solving someone else problems than your own. To understand this, we have to look into the construal level theory of psychological distance. The concept of self is closer to yourself than it is to other people. Other people are psychologically distant from you. That is why thinking for other people tends to improve problem-solving and even deter personal/emotional barriers to creativity.
You feel happier when you are busy. Your brain dislikes being idle. It prefers to stay busy. For each task you complete you are rewarded with dopamine.
Isn't this contradicting the other statement that was made about being lazy??
Food made by someone else tastes better than your own cooking. You are standing around it so long it's already feels less appealing by the time it's ready to eat.
Being forgetful is a sign of high intelligence. Scientists claim that forgetting is just as important as remembering. "Bad memory" = mechanism for making more space for more relevant information in your brain. And it keeps your brain from wasting space and energy.
Nice spin about the intelligence, though it can just be a sign of being overworked, under a stress or in a new situation (take pregnant mothers or grieving people).
You thought you felt your phone vibrate in your pocket but there were no notifications. This condition is called Phantom Vibration Syndrome and 68% of us suffer from it.
What does your texting style say about your personality? If you write long texts, you are sensitive and thoughtful. You see words as a meaningful and powerful tool and put feelings and thoughts into it.
I think that goes both ways.... Sometimes long texts are meaningless, repetitive, and time wasting
You position your feet towards the person you are most interested in. It's a survival instinct. Your body is making sure your feet could react immediately if you feel any type of threat.
And you can indicate disinterest to your babbling colleague by turning your feet away from them though keeping your face looking at them. Makes them end the conversation faster.
You are always late. People who are chronically late have tendencies of underestimating how long a task is going to take to complete. This is called "planning fallacy."
You can't see smartphones in your dreams. Research suggest that since smartphones and other modern day devices are newer our brain haven't gotten used to them yet.
You prefer to park your car next to another car in an almost empty lot. It's because we often follow the crowd. This behavior helps us to explain that we as humans are social beings.
Or because our brain prefers lazy and parking as close to the entrance as possible. Someone should test this by parking some group of cars in a not so optimal spot at the lot.
Actually this can be applied to a number of areas in our lives that we are not completely conscious of. When driving down the road we tend to drive in packs with other cars, if there are other cars on the road. So I think that this concept is true however like Delboy states there are going to be some situations where you choose to be farther from the crowd.
This is where I'm different, traffic is not very alluring to me
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This is nonsense. Now if this were about seating in a nearly empty restaurant, maybe. That would address one my personal peeves... going into an empty restaurant where you seat yourself, and the next couple that enters comes over and sits at the booth/table next to yours. Go away. When I enter a nearly empty place, I choose seating the furthest away from anyone already there. Even in places where you are seated by a hostess, they tend to seat you next to other people. No... just no.
Sound like an attention-getter to me. The waiter is more likely to be quicker with you then too
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NOPE. Assholes are out there. And some of those assholes have cars. If you park next to the ass, they just might slam your car with their door. And then asshole acts like an ass and blames it on you.
...unless you're trying to avoid door dings in a new or classic car!
Priorities: is there a space? Does it have shade? Close enough to destination? Can I use this opportunity to punish someone who is parked badly by parking really close to them, while still parking perfectly myself? Yes, sometimes I'm evil, but only to those who I think deserve it.
This one I believe. I’ve noticed this one in action, especially when I’m the first one to arrive and I park in the back of the lot. … OR, it could be that the spot I picked was part of a group the only 3 shady spots in the lot ;)
If the lot is not full I leave several spaces between me and the next car. No car door dings on my car,
I think is because the bulk of parked cars are closest to the entrance to the place you are going, so you have to walk less. So sounds logical to park closer, as well.
I always pick a spot away from other cars. Less change of damage, in both ways ;)
Bullshit. It's because everybody wants the parking spots closest to the entrance. Jesus, where are they getting this crap?
You prefer to park closer to your destination, not to others cars.
I park in the farthest spot (usually far away from other cars) to get my 'steps' in.
No.. It's called one side is always easier to get to the thing you got out your car for. If you were to park at the top of the carpark and the shop is at the bottom, you've now got to walk all the way across the carpark with your shopping because you chose to make it more effort for yourself. And people park where it's easier to get the cleanest turn into or leave buffer areas so people can leave without damaging cars, whilst all being able to benefit from not needing to walk across a carpark for no reason.
NOPE. Land Rovers look for others in a lot to park next to. That is the creed.
I feel this way too actually, especially do this next to one of the nicer cars
Well I think sometimes most people just park closest to the building, which so happens to be where almost everyone else is parked
I park in the back of the lot furthest from the store because the traffic close to the store is stupid.
Nope. I prefer to park halfway down, away from other cars, and right near the cart corral.
What does it mean when you try to park away from anyone else especially any families innSUVs
I always park as far away in a corner, as I can. A bit more exercise walking.
Only if all the other cars are closest to the door, in which case I'm parking by the door, not by others.
Or, you park near other cars because you are all trying to park as close to the entrance to the building (or whatever) as possible. Why would I park at the far end of the lot when there are open spaces right near the building? You trying to attach a profound psychological reason to simple, rational behavior.
No. I was the one parking at the end of the lot where no one else was.
The first mistake was assuming I'm a "social" being. I am NOT. I don't like to engage, especially with strangers.
NOPE! I ALWAYS park away. Nothing worse than someone pulling up next to you and their excited 5yr old kicks open their door trying to get out super fast. Then you gotta pretend it's okay because the kid is crying due to being yelled at by the parent. FFS
If a lot is that empty, I find a spot with no one next to me. It's easier to get in and out of. Besides, they are so many people who can't park between the white lines properly.
Noup, it just everybody wants to walk the shortest distance, so everybody parks as close to the doors as possible.
How about, we all park close to the door, to walk less. That's why we drive at all.
if a parking lot almost empty, the cars will be parked close the some entrance.... that's why they're all close to each other!
Never do this. You have to know about Door Dint Gnomes and their habits. These little whatsits hide in car parks and when they think the coast is clear, they will creep out with their little hammers and put a dint in your car door. To avoid them, know their habits. They don’t like being seen so empty spaces round your car will deter them. They also dislike anything that makes a large gap between cars like a kerb or some bushes. If all else fails then park next to a car that’s more expensive than yours. Door Dint Gnomes are confused by this and will leave your car alone.
Explain why then, if you pull into a half empty parking lot, more than half the cars are spread out all over the place.
People park close to their destination, so they're not going to park at the empty end of the car park if the shop entrance is the other end
I think it was written by someone with scrambled eggs for brains
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Yep, pretty sure my brain wanted to be lazy through all of it.
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Yup, the TikToker seems to have tried that bit too hard to create theories to support their own thoughts and pass it off as fact.
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Another unproven, undocumented, unresearched opinion. A good example of how generalised bs gets spread. Stay sceptical!
I get the gist of many of these the concept if there but the way they are worded it is a little confusing on some of them. For instance the last one to make the statement “you are always late.” To me that’s making an assumption and normally because I’m a smart a$$ and I would reply “please go seek medical attention immediately because you’re getting your only exercise by jumping to assumptions and conclusions”
It is amazing how most of TikTok articles have negative comments, yet the BP staff keeps shoving them down our throats. But like they say, anyone can write on Bored Panda.
I'm already tired of articles citing tictoc videos as a source. Give me an article that researches the claims in these videos, and then shares the findings.
For only $299 and 1 weekend seminar, you too can be a certified coach explaining to people how their brains work!
So which is it? One stupid statement says that our brain wants us to be lazy, and just a few frames further along, another one says our brains want us to be busy because it's happiest then. Someone made up a bunch of junk and posted it, didn't they, taking advantage of the foolishness BP promotes: "Anyone can write on Bored Panda, so get to writing!" Not 'everyone' should be writing, however!
I have studied psychology - in forensic psychology I learned that some people manipulate facts just to get attention- don't know if that's true or not but I think it should be taken with a tablespoon of salt!
A lot of these sounded fake. But idk this post kept me from being bored so not a huge waste of time??
Yeah, this article was written by someone just pullin' sht outta their ass
Lots of people complaining about this... but I think it is because the individual posts say "you do this, you do that". And people are overly sensitive when they hear that. "Don't tell me what I do, I'm an INDIVIDUAL". The thing is though, I know of studies that back up most (but not all) of these comments. So there is data to prove that the majority of the population does these things. Maybe YOU don't. Maybe you are some special unique rebel who thinks for yourself and bucks the trends. Or maybe you just really wish you were and are living in denial when people point out how you behave.
The complaints are not so much about that we DO these things but as to WHY we do them. I hold open doors because I don't want it to slam into the next person's face and, yes, I am considerate enough to realize someone else was oggling the last slice and maybe we could share. And look at the picture with the carpark - they don't park there because we social being but that is where the bloody entrance is.
Load More Replies... I don't think I've ever seen a flakier post on BP. As useful rules, they are up there with i before e.
Pschology works great in movies ,excellent for Mentalist type of shows but it can't explain s**t in real life and why hoomans make the choices they make?!
If you think thoroughly about the implicit meaning of a few of the statements, you can see some valid conclusions, but most of these entries would benefit from a clearer writing or, even more so on a brain-stuff post, from quoting and referencing actual scientific research.
Yep, pretty sure my brain wanted to be lazy through all of it.
Load More Replies... Yup, the TikToker seems to have tried that bit too hard to create theories to support their own thoughts and pass it off as fact.
Load More Replies... Another unproven, undocumented, unresearched opinion. A good example of how generalised bs gets spread. Stay sceptical!
I get the gist of many of these the concept if there but the way they are worded it is a little confusing on some of them. For instance the last one to make the statement “you are always late.” To me that’s making an assumption and normally because I’m a smart a$$ and I would reply “please go seek medical attention immediately because you’re getting your only exercise by jumping to assumptions and conclusions”
It is amazing how most of TikTok articles have negative comments, yet the BP staff keeps shoving them down our throats. But like they say, anyone can write on Bored Panda.
I'm already tired of articles citing tictoc videos as a source. Give me an article that researches the claims in these videos, and then shares the findings.
For only $299 and 1 weekend seminar, you too can be a certified coach explaining to people how their brains work!
So which is it? One stupid statement says that our brain wants us to be lazy, and just a few frames further along, another one says our brains want us to be busy because it's happiest then. Someone made up a bunch of junk and posted it, didn't they, taking advantage of the foolishness BP promotes: "Anyone can write on Bored Panda, so get to writing!" Not 'everyone' should be writing, however!
I have studied psychology - in forensic psychology I learned that some people manipulate facts just to get attention- don't know if that's true or not but I think it should be taken with a tablespoon of salt!
A lot of these sounded fake. But idk this post kept me from being bored so not a huge waste of time??
Yeah, this article was written by someone just pullin' sht outta their ass
Lots of people complaining about this... but I think it is because the individual posts say "you do this, you do that". And people are overly sensitive when they hear that. "Don't tell me what I do, I'm an INDIVIDUAL". The thing is though, I know of studies that back up most (but not all) of these comments. So there is data to prove that the majority of the population does these things. Maybe YOU don't. Maybe you are some special unique rebel who thinks for yourself and bucks the trends. Or maybe you just really wish you were and are living in denial when people point out how you behave.
The complaints are not so much about that we DO these things but as to WHY we do them. I hold open doors because I don't want it to slam into the next person's face and, yes, I am considerate enough to realize someone else was oggling the last slice and maybe we could share. And look at the picture with the carpark - they don't park there because we social being but that is where the bloody entrance is.
Load More Replies... I don't think I've ever seen a flakier post on BP. As useful rules, they are up there with i before e.
Pschology works great in movies ,excellent for Mentalist type of shows but it can't explain s**t in real life and why hoomans make the choices they make?!
If you think thoroughly about the implicit meaning of a few of the statements, you can see some valid conclusions, but most of these entries would benefit from a clearer writing or, even more so on a brain-stuff post, from quoting and referencing actual scientific research.
