What Do You Think Is The Most Interesting Psychology Phenomenon? (r/AskReddit)

what do you think is the most interesting psychology phenomenon psychosomatic symptoms how you can have all these physical complaints or symptoms but physiologically there's nothing causing it how things can literally be all in your head super intresting if you're talking to someone intently and you hand them something more often than not they'll take it doesn't matter if it's a book a pen or an orange no idea what the phenomenon is called or if it's even psychological but it's made for some great pranks in the same vein you can look straight up towards the sky in a public location and everyone else around you will look up to that you're more likely to like someone if you think that person likes you makes sense if you never felt anything for someone and they suddenly tell you that they like you you start to consider liking them back childhood amnesia the fact that up until a certain point you don't remember things my first memory isms until I was six my wife's is when she was two has seemed to be emotionally based so they're sparse and fleeting mine are like I just suddenly had a switch flipped and there I was you skipped your backstory locus of control lock lock basically is how you view control over your own life people either have an internal lock where they believe they have the power to control fire own lives or an external lock where you believe everything in life comes from a source other than yourself I got fired because my boss hates me I was late because traffic et Cie now what's interesting is that studies have shown people with an internal lock find greater satisfaction and success in almost every aspect of life except one being in a nursing home drives internal lock people crazy while external lock people thrive now the nursing home bit is very fascinating my grandmother did surprisingly well in a nursing home and I think this probably explains why I know for a fact I would hate living in one I find er the call of the void an interesting phenomenon it's that feeling you get when you stand on a high place and subconsciously think I could totally jump off right now but you don't really want to when you don't actually jump I experienced this multiple times on my most recent trip to Europe I tried explaining the still earth family member the other day almost every single time I'm in a moving car in the back seat I think about opening the door I would never actually do it could be urge is so strong that I have to put my hand on the handle and pull it with the door locks of course seems relative Cottard delusion aka walking corpse syndrome where the sufferer genuinely believes that they are dead don't exist or have no internal organs absolutely crazy I can't imagine what it feels like walking around feeling actually genuinely dead I experienced this for a period of time after my dad passed away when I was younger it was terrifying and traumatic I felt as if I was hollow inside with no organs or vessels just empty muscle and was a ghost that everyone else could see thankfully those delusions don't plague my life anymore but it was so dark and awful if you get yourself to be really happy and excited to see other people they will react the same to you but it doesn't always happen the first time but it will definitely happen next time time and again this has always worked fine for me the placebo effect the idea that belief in something can actually have a positive impact on the body just seems so crazy to me also helped me realize inversely why stress and anxiety can't take such a toll on you deja vu to have such a strong feeling that an instance has happened before is crazy likely experienced it in the past or dreamed of it the other those are fascinating to Presque vu is when something is on the tip of your tongue but you can't remember it jame vu is when something familiar seems unfamiliar it's the opposite of deja vu how I can have a surprise in my dream like something will happen and I'll I be confused about it then someone will explain it by giving you information and then it makes sense but all of this is created by my own brain while I'm dreaming how can I reveal new information to myself to explain something denial the many answers to evade the truth are very creative denial is rooted in perception of threat if you manage to convey the same words in a way that doesn't make it as a threat you'll shave off most of it playing when two animals play with each other they both communicate aggression they show fangs claws they bite they go for the neck etc everything about it should communicate danger but they never feel endangered even when one animal accidentally hurts another this happens even when animals are playing with animals they have barely known for some time it blows my mind how the right context completely transforms all the communication between animals in play my understanding is that dogs have little pauses throughout a play fight that confirms it's just playing and that dogs get so riled up when humans play fight because they sometimes can't tell when it's for real dissociative disorders a dissociative disorder is a mental disorder that involve experiencing a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts memories surroundings actions and identity people with dissociative disorders escape reality in ways that are involuntary and unhealthy and caused problems with functioning in everyday life this was me in school as a result of early childhood trauma I used to write texts in which I wondered what was going on and why things were like that like a movie that you're watching but have no involvement in I also used to have these kind of awake dreams in stressful situations where I would just space a freak out and have all these random thoughts and images that I was not in control of how people who hate themselves hate people who like them how laughter affects people laughter is basically the into stresses yang which inspires me to make people laugh when I can as I don't know what they're going through laughter increases things like dopamine and can even help soothe physical pain sometimes even smiling lifting the corners of your mouth alone has positive effects on you even if you force it why do people have favorites like a favorite color or a favorite flower for me it is the unconscious mind and the fact that it accounts for the majority of our cognitive activity I think it's interesting how we can simultaneously both know and not know things it is also interesting and perhaps even frightening that we are not running the show to the extent that we think we are at least not consciously I like catching my unconscious mind making decisions for me the one that I've catched the most is actually when to get up out of bed you would think that is a decision that your conscious mind makes but if you think about it soon after sitting up you'll realize you just kinda did it without actually deciding to get up it's weird dreaming even though everyone does it it's amazing that our minds create virtual realities for us nightly if you can loose a dream it can be more entertaining than any game technology has invented I'm amazed let the number of people who freeze in a disastrous situation like a sinking ship people who survived tragedies like that always reports that there's not nearly the amount of panic and confusion that you'd expect a lot of people freeze in place and simply can't move even as the water is rising around them it families have been split up in situations like this where two of them can move but the other three cards confirmation bias the brain so actively tries not to see things it is fascinating the gamblers fallacy specifically how the same series of events can lead to two different conclusions assume you have a perfectly fair coin you toss it five times and get five heads you then ask two people what they think the sixth toss will be personally thinks that heads is obviously on a roll so he bets on heads person B thinks that heads has happened too many times which means that tails is to come up so he bets on tails they're both wrong the odds are the sixth row remain the same regardless of what happened in the past note that this only works if the coin is fair son cost fallacy as well where you have devoted so much time resources into something to where it makes it harder to just let go for example the long term relationship you know is doomed you're more likely to try and hang on to adieu to all of the work you put it on the fear of losing all that progress the Troxler effect a psychological phenomenon where if one is put into a dimly lit room then look at their self in the mirror for an extended period of time they will see things in the mirror but only the mirror it is caused by the human brain being able to only experience so little at a time there are things you aren't paying attention to and therefore don't experience for instance you're blinking pattern or how the air feels your brain deems it irrelevant so it just cuts them off to process of the staff when in the dimly lit room looking at the mirror your brain deems stuff and the mirror irrelevant and just simply removes it from your sight but it still has to put something there but because it's irrelevant and doesn't know what to put there it tries it's best to fill in that void and in doing so makes something weird happened I am pretty sure there was an instance where someone tried this and their mouth stretched out across their cheeks the brain didn't know what to put on the cheeks because it was deemed irrelevant so it tried to fill the gap and failed one of the most popular cases of this would be Bloody Mary this could also happen without a mirror ever just be in your room and out of the corner of your eye you see something looking at you peeking around the door but when you focus on it nothing's there that will be the Troxler effect folia do that to people can have the same shared psychosis or better yet hallucinations is just insane the transference there as a psych major this one gets me cute aggression I always thought the link between cuteness and violent urges was ironic every time you see something extremely cute something in your brain says I have to squeeze its little head off other languages than English have a term for this I think it's known as nerve you we tend to hate people that have the same floors and make the same mistakes as we do the baader-meinhof effect or frequency delusion like something because it seems unique well now you will notice that everyone else has it too you're welcome or like when you buy a make and model of car that you've never had before and suddenly everywhere you go you keep seeing other people driving the same car or my friend who works as a nurse in a psych ward and now almost everyone knew she meets she suspects them to have some sort of mental illness she deals with mental illness every day at work so now she sees the signs of it everywhere false memories how you can implant false memories and some one over time and they believe they are real and their reactions are based on their own reality this is actually a real problem when trying to solve bad traffic accidents when people are in shock even the questions by the police can make them think that something happened the bystander effect everyone thinks they would help if something happens but the effect says that the more people there are the less someone is going to help I'm going to psych nerd out a bit since I did research on this phenomenon but facial information processing errors associated with depression are super interesting folks with major depressive disorder MDD are actually way more likely than their peers to misidentify and selectively focus on emotional responses from other people they have a much higher risk of misperceiving neutral faces as negative and for missing facial cues that indicate positive information at the same time folks with MDD are also much better at noticing negative facial emotion indicators similarly people with anxiety disorders tend to be much more likely to see neutral faces as angry I find it really interesting because it shows how a mood disorder like depression is way more complex and we sometimes give it credit for information processing problems can be triggered by and in turn reinforce someone's depression if we focus just on mood as our metric for what constitutes recovery we miss some really interesting and potentially useful ways to provide treatment pillock talk or arctic hysteria which exists mostly among Enya worth living in the Arctic region sufferers often become agitated shouting and tearing off their clothes before running naked in the freezing temperatures this continues for hours until they collapse and sleep they have recovered by the time they wake up and may not remember the event interestingly the SIL nurse also affects sled dogs and non Inuit people I heard people do this because the body cycles blood from the organs out of the skin to try and keep all areas of the body warm blood rushing to the skin however ironically makes a hot flush so bad that people strip off of course I'm sure the freezing temperatures also F up the brain a little encouraging seemingly irrationally behavior Capgras syndrome it's a psychiatric disorder where you believe the people around you are imposters despite recognizing that they look act sound the same it can come from a disconnect of the emotional brain regions and visual regions I believe there are cases where a patient will overcome the impostor sensation by speaking on the phone with someone so having no visual information I've also seen it in people who suffer from schizophrenia I suggest a read into it if you like abnormal sick when you stare at a word in your language for a long ish length of time and you start to think that it's spelled incorrectly or it isn't a word phantom limb syndrome the ability to feel sensations and even pain and a limb or limbs that's no longer exist phantom limb syndrome is characterized by both non painful and painful sensations non painful sensations can be divided into the perception of movement in the perception of external sensations Xterra ception including touch temperature pressure vibration and itch pain sensations range from burning and shooting pains to feelings of tingling pins and needles while phantom limb syndrome occurs only in amputees phantom sensations may be perceived in people who have survived strokes but lost function of certain body parts or who have spinal cord injury or peripheral nerve injury phantom limb syndrome was first described in 1552 by french surgeon ambrose arrey who operated on wounded soldiers and wrote about patients who complained of pain and amputated limbs the same syndrome was later observed and noted by french scientist mathematician and philosopher rené des côtes german physician err and Lamaze Scottish anatomist Sir Charles Bell and American physician Silas Weir Mitchell who tended to wounded soldiers in Philadelphia during the American Civil War Scottish physician William Porter field wrote a first-hand account of phantom limb syndrome in the 18th century following the amputation of one of his legs he was the first person to consider sensory perception as the underlying phenomenon of the syndrome the effects of a person's environment expectations and upbringing on schizophrenia specifically schizophrenic Santa voices hallucinate in a lot of societies these voices are usually aggressive duck cruel or they simply torture the one experiencing them calling names and undermining them in others usually more spiritual societies the voices are calm benevolent and actively trying to help the listener it is thought that this is the result from how those societies see the schizophreniform mental disease in popular culture and media even dangerous this stigma gives the person involved a negative view of their mental condition and causes them to internally demonize it and exactly that creates the evil voices they believe it is negative so it becomes more negative after all the voices are a figment of their own imagination in some cultures schizophrenic sont labelled that they are seen as shamans or priests or a gifted person with a strong spiritual connection the voices are interpreted as guides deceased ancestors or even Goss self they don't perceive it as an evil so the voices do not become evil the person hearing then doesn't suffer that much from it of course feeling a sense of grandeur because of your mental state is also not a healthy thing but for the one involved it is a better alternative that being tortured by voices telling you you're trash or that you should do horrible things or just screaming making noise it can be treated with antipsychotics to a certain degree it would be lovely if one day we as a society could look at schizophrenia in a more healthy manner so that those who have it aren't as plagued by it because they have a more neutral view of it I hope it is possible someday synesthesia this happens when you experience one sensory stimulus and it triggers another for example you hear a splash and think of the color blue I get this quite vividly with tastes if I see a plastic fork I always taste ketchup for some reason hysterical pregnancies the individual is so obsessed convinced that they are pregnant that their body responds they may miss periods hold weight in their belly swollen breasts that may even lactate it's incredible cognitive dissonance if our actions don't match up with our opinions beliefs wishes etc something will give and either our actions will change or our mindset will doesn't sound very interesting until you use this to hack your life in a sense ever heard of the law of attraction it's kind of like this the law of attraction claims that if you want something just pretend like you already have it envisioned that you have it and you live it want to lose weight envision you as your ideal weight every night sounds like complete BS and in a sense it is but it applies to cognitive dissonance and if you play your cards right it works for me I was a very shy person I wanted to become talkative and get friends and guys so I would tell myself I'm not shy people love me I have tons of friends my beliefs did not match up with my actions I wouldn't talk to people but eventually something gave and I started to act in accordance to my beliefs either you will give up on pretending or you will become how you believe yourself to be something to think about Law of Attraction isn't a proven thing but cognitive dissonance --is the amount that the words we use and thinking changes how we act people who speak Spanish are less likely to blame someone for dropping something because the language is the thing was dropped rather than you drop the thing Australian Aborigines have no words for left right etc instead they use north east south and west as a result they almost always know what direction they are facing even inside buildings with no exterior view it's interesting that your spoken language is also your brains language dissociative fugue they are pretty rare but the idea of the brain just shutting down and allowing for reversible amnesia is so fascinating there are documented cases of people disappearing for years at a time and starting whole new lives and not remembering anything about their past dean devaluation it's the loss of self-awareness and groups often attributed to mobs and how seemingly normal people can participate in illegal behavior such as riots and lynching you have a decreased self evaluation of your actions and it's as if the group shares the responsibility and not you for your actions the repression of traumatic memories it's so weird went through a rough time long time ago in self-harm was involved apparently because later on I couldn't remember doing that to myself the scars are there and maybe there's a very vague memory of a moment somewhere but nothing that will make me say are yes I remember when I did this I'm not sure if it counts but sleep paralysis is really interesting to me I've read it could be linked to mental health and other factors I've dealt with this for over 20 years when I'm under a lot of stress it will affect me almost every night the only relief I found is taking sleep aids like squirrel or Tylenol PM and wait till line struggling to keep my eyes open before I go lay down I have to go from a wake to sleep as quickly as possible to prevent it how fans of opposing teams from the same country can hate each other with such passion hate that boils over to reasons completely unrelated to the teams or the sport itself furthermore when the fans team wins the fan translates the team's success into personal gain most often taking on a smug attitude head down to the Olay miss vs. Mississippi State game this year and you can cut the tension with a knife humans are tribal the in-group out-group bias and social identity I just find it fascinating how something as simple as assigning people into teams groups can turn them against each other lead to bias I feel like you see examples of it all the time especially on the internet where everything is anonymous VAX versus anti VAX leave versus remain Trump versus Hillary Millennials versus boomers breastfed versus formula-fed research even shows that in-groups and out-groups can be created by the most arbitrary characteristics as well like taste and music films art etc there are two kinds of people people putting labels on others in dividing them into groups and other people planning fallacy we always believe that things will take less time than they do even when we've done this activity before it's very strange to me LPT if you're going to be late tell the person you're going to be later than you think you are hey sorry boss I'm gonna be 30 minutes late today then you show up 15 minutes late boss will be less annoyed because now it feels like you're early even though you're still late sauce I was laid off them you have been visited by the money cat like feel good luck and 40 if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Length: 22min 59sec (1379 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 07 2020