47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself

47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself

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Note from Jim: Fascinating and useful! - Insights about human behavior with citations of psychological studies. Oriented to tips for electronic communication and web design yet containing lessons for marketing, social interaction, perception, decision making, and influence. 
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Susan Weinschenk, What Makes Them Click


47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself

Excerpts:
#1 — You Have “Inattention Blindness”

#2 — You READ FASTER With a longer Line Length But PREFER Shorter

#3 — You Can Only Remember 3 to 4 Things At A Time (The Magic Number 3 or 4)

#4 — You Imagine Objects From Above and Tilted (The “Canonical Perspective”)

#5 — You Make Most of Your Decisions Unconsciously

#6 — You Reconstruct Your Memories

#7 — You Actually Can’t Multi-Task

#8 — Dopamine Makes You Addicted To Seeking Information

#9 — Blue and Red Together is Hard On Your Eyes (Chromostereopsis)

#10 — You Want More Choices and Information Than You Can Actually Process

#11 — Why You Can’t Resist Paying Attention to Food, Sex, or Danger

#12 — When it comes to technology, you definitely “act your age”

#13 — Want To Change a Habit? Use Fun, Surprise, and a Crowd

#14 — Reading Text Online Is Not Fun

#15 — If You Use Social Media Without Laughter You Aren’t Being Social

#16 — The Ability To Delay Gratification Or Not Starts Young

#17 — Your Unconscious Knows First

#18 — What People Look At On a Picture Or Screen Depends On What You Say To Them

#19 — It’s a Myth That All Capital Letters Are Inherently Harder to Read

#20 — Your Attention Is Riveted By Pictures Of People

#21 — You Overestimate Your Reactions to Future Events

#22 — Peripheral Vison — Keeping You Alive or Channel Surfing?

#23 — You Are Hard-Wired For Imitation and Empathy

#24 — You Are Most Affected By Brands and Logos When You Are Sad Or Scared

#25 — Trust Your Gut or Be Logical? It Depends On Your Mood

#26 — Culture shapes our brain

#27 — We go below the “fold”

#28 — Things that are close together seem to belong together

#29 – Brand Names Talk To Our “Old” Brains

#30 — Our “strong tie” group size is 150 people

#31 — The Desire For Control And Choice Is Built In

#32 — Synchronous activity bonds the group

#33: Bite-Sized Chunks Of Info Are Best

#34 — Too Much Stress Results In Poor Performance

#35 — People Make Mistakes

#36 — People are Inherently Lazy

#37 — People Assume It’s You, Not The Situation

#38 — Even The Illusion Of Progress Is Motivating

#39 — Your Mind Wanders 30% of the Time

#40 — “You’re Easily Influenced, but I’m not”

#41 — Your Most Vivid Memories Are Wrong

#42 — We’ll spend more money if you don’t mention money

#43 — People Expect Online Interactions to Follow Social Rules

#44 — When Uncertain, People Look To Others to Decide What To Do

#45 — You Choose (And Vote For) The First One On The List

#46: The more uncertain you are, the more you dig in and defend your ideas

#47 — People Value A Product More Highly If It Is Physically In Front Of Them


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Dr. Susan Weinschenk has been applying psychology to the design of technology for 30 years and is the author of Neuro Web Design: What makes them click? and 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People. Susan is Chief of User Experience Strategy, Americas, at Human Factors International, and runs a popular blog: Whatmakesthemclick.net.

You can contact Susan at: Weinschenk@gmail.com or twitter@thebrainlady


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http://dreamlearndobecome.blogspot.com This posting was made my Jim Jacobs, President & CEO of Jacobs Executive Advisors. Jim also serves as Leader of Jacobs Advisors' Insurance Practice.