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).
...and all 3 of the situations you mentioned would drive your brain to "make more space for more relevant information in your brain. And (keep) your brain from wasting space and energy.".
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So, what does this tell me if I already forgot most of the brain "facts"
Sometimes it is about how it is stored and the problem may be retrieval and not a loss of information.
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I legitimately have the worst memory ever I forget what I was talking about all the time like midsentance I will like hear something and bam I have no clue what I was talking about :(
This sounds more like distraction than a bad memory.
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This one does not describe me. I am an extremely forgetful person but I certainly don't have high intelligence.
Then there’s me, who is intelligent and has a pretty good memory, except when I’m busy.
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NOPE. The brain can only hold 7 pieces of information at any one time. In order for something new to come in, something old must be moved out either into long-term memory, or into the circular file. This is why phone numbers used to only be 7 digits long. And when area codes were introduced, so were the parenthesis and dashes, so that the 3-digit area code could become 1 piece of info rather than 3, followed by the 3-digit city code that becomes 1 piece of info, etc. This is also why those annoying ads on TV insist on repeating the phone number 3, 4, 5, or more times to make sure that if short-term memory is full, their number can go directly into long-term memory.
Unless you're a new Mum or pregnant... Baby brain is the worst... Especially when you forget simple things like ball (round thing) or pavement (ground flooring 😳😳🙈)
An elderly relative used to say that she still had a pretty good memory, but her forgettery was top notch.
...and I was told it was because my seizures caused my brain to make new pathways, not to mention it's extremely common to have poor memory among epileptics
In that case, I'm super intelligent, just ask my wife S...err... It's on the tip of my tongue...
I tend to work with this with a little too much confidence. I never take notes in meetings, claiming that if there is some important information, I will remember it anyway. Not 100% effective but I get away with it so far.
If bring forgetful is a sign of intelligence, then I must be the most intelligent person in MENSA
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.
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.
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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.
