17 Surprising psychological facts about yourself

It's one of the least understood things in the world. Nonetheless, a lot has been learned about how the mind works without further delay. Let's explore some surprising human psychological facts about yourself that may surprise you.

 

The ability to delay gratification, or not, starts young.

Everyone can delay gratification. Many people, once they start to feel like they want something, no matter how many reasons they come up with to delay getting it, eventually give in. Let's say you want a new tablet, but then you start thinking it would probably be better to take care of your bills before buying it, or you could even wait until after the holiday season when the prices usually go down when you find yourself in this situation. What do you usually wait for? Whether the answer is yes or no, there's a high probability that you've been this way.

 

You want more choices than you can handle.

Let's say you want to try a different kind of cereal for a change. As you stand in the aisle of the grocery store, you will likely find yourself overwhelmed by the number of available choices. I'm pretty sure you'll agree that's how it is with most things when you go shopping. be it food, apparel, electronics, or anything else. There are always many choices. That's because people prefer to have a lot of options to select from. Ask anyone if they would rather have limited options or more choices and their answer will likely be the latter.

 

You're addicted to faces.

As humans, we are social beings, and we often communicate our feelings through facial expressions. We are hardwired to scan the world for facial cues around us. Due to evolution, you deem such input so important that your brain immediately and subconsciously reacts to anything that even remotely resembles a face. This is why we often find pictures that contain human faces. It's an integral part of you. When something undesirable happens, people tend to blame someone else instead of the circumstance.

 

Find themselves instance

If you're late for a meeting or appointment, you're more likely to blame the taxi driver than the construction that resulted in traffic on the way. Since the human mind works this way, you must remember this and consider it when you encounter situations like this.

 

You can't multitask.

While it may be possible for you to easily switch between tasks, you cannot multitask. For things that require minimal physical effort, like walking, the mind has been hardwired in such a way that it can only fully concentrate on one task at a time.

 

Synchronized activity bonds your group.

A group that does things together will always have a closer bond. Research shows that people who have fun together, laugh together, and participate in several activities together are always ready to take steps and make sacrifices for one another, even if some of the members don't like each other.

 

Your mind wanders more than you realize.

We're all aware that our minds wander at times, but do you know just how much for most of us? Depending on the circumstances, this figure can reach as high as 70%. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Yes, a wandering mind will sometimes miss crucial information, but it can also encourage creativity. In addition, a wandering mind can help you keep other important information in mind while doing something else.

 

Your eyes don't like red and blue?

The combination of red and blue can produce an optical illusion that causes something to appear closer or farther away than it is; in fact, early 3D effects were created using this illusion. However, this color combination is very hard on the eyes and fatigues them.

 

You crave the familiar when you're emotionally unstable.

Did you know that if you're feeling down or scared, you prefer to surround yourself with things you're familiar with? If you go to the grocery store after a heated argument with your partner or a bad day at work, you're more likely to buy brands you're familiar with rather than trying something new. This happens because when you're sad or scared, you feel vulnerable, so your mind looks for familiar things to latch on to.

 

You have a maximum social group size of 10.

There's only a certain number of relationships that your brain can handle. The truth is that no one can maintain close relationships with those hundreds or thousands of Facebook friends. In reality, according to psychologists, we can only handle between 50 and 150 close bonds. Of course, this doesn't mean that you can't make a lot of acquaintances, but that's all they will ever be.

 

You read faster with longer lines but prefer shorter ones.

Believe it or not, you can read text with longer lines faster than ones with narrower columns. Many people believe they can read narrower columns faster, but that's only because their eyes prefer narrower columns visually.

 

Construct your memories.

since our recollections always play like little movies in our minds. We think that our memories are saved and stacked away like files on a computer. In reality, however, every time you try to recollect any information from your past, your mind reconstructs the memory. This means that no two recollections of the same memory are ever the same. Yes, you reconstruct the memory every time, so you can add things that are not there or miss things that were.

 

Do you think others are more easily influenced?

There is a psychological phenomenon that is called the third-person effect. This is a personal bias that mass media messages in advertising have greater effects on others than on ourselves. This bias is even greater when you don't particularly care for the source of influence, but the truth is that many advertisements subconsciously affect your mood, attitude, and what you want.

 

You overestimate your reaction

You overestimate your reaction to future events. You must have at one time or another wanted something so badly that you believed when you had it you'd be much happier, but that's not always how things turn out to be. Our level of happiness stays about the same, and it always reverts to a steady norm. The actual truth about how you feel about future events is that you often overestimate your reactions to them, both the positive and the negative ones.

 

You like bite-sized pieces of information.

The human mind prefers to have information in small bits and pieces. It's much easier to understand and maintain things. In this way, people generally have a defined attention span and there is a limit to their information retention capacity. However, because of this, communicating informative content can be rather tricky, because over
Simplifications can lead to the loss of crucial aspects of information.

 

Your words can manipulate perception.

Did you know that it is the words that are used to describe a situation that determine your perception of it? For example, if someone describes a car accident to us, you won't have a terrible mental image of the crash, even if it was a bad one. On the flip side, if an accident is described as a smash, your mind will paint a terrible picture of the crash even if it wasn't so bad.

 

You know how to do things you've never done before.

This is possible because your brain forms an idea or picture of how something works. It's called a mental model. So, if someone tells you they did something you have never tried before, your mind creates pictures of how they could have gone about it. This is the concept at work when you come across tools and gadgets you've never used before and your mind automatically forms some assumptions about how to use them. You can die from having your heart broken by stress. Cardiomyopathy is often referred to as broken heart syndrome.