Interesting facts about psychology: what is useful to know

Psychology is one of the most fascinating sciences, which has recently become increasingly popular. Why? It's simple: the field of study of psychology is a man, his life - that is, what we face daily. People are interested to learn more about themselves in order to learn to understand each other and themselves better.

The content of the article:
Relationship psychology
Features of male psychology
Features of female psychology

We offer you a selection of the most amazing facts from different areas of psychology, which will not only help you have a little fun, but also learn a lot of useful information.

Psychology of human processes

Rule 7 ± 2. It turns out that our short-term memory is able to hold only 5 to 9 information blocks at a time. This means that we, for example, can remember no more than 9 digits, and only by 20-30 seconds. If you do not repeat the information regularly, then soon there will be no trace of it in our head.
In the course of research conducted recently by university scientists at Cambridge, it was proved that when reading, the human brain does not perceive characters individually, but words as a whole. Do not believe? It is easy to prove in practice. Surely you will be able to read this phrase without much difficulty: "The confusion of the letter is confused, washed out all-torn by the lgeko poyanti."
A person can focus his attention on the maximum level for only 7 minutes. No matter how interested you are in the current question, you can listen to the interlocutor carefully for no more than 7 minutes in a row, then other questions will arise in your head, thoughts on other topics.
According to the observations of psychologists, most people spend 30% of their time in dreams. It may be thoughts about your future, a possible outcome of events. Such a pastime is useful: dreamers who soar in the clouds, have a more developed imagination and better cope with the task, because they can easily come up with several solutions at once.
Acquiring a habit, whether it is harmful or beneficial, takes an average of 60 days. This is the time it takes for the ritual to take root in everyday life. In addition, it is known that pleasant habits take root a little faster than those that cause some discomfort: you can learn to eat fruits for lunch for 30 days, but to do daily physical activity for 60 days.
A person can not have a large number of friends. Psychologists assure that thousands of subscribers in social networks are just an illusion of social circle. In fact, it is human nature to have friendly relations only with people in the amount of 50-150 people ("Dunbar number").
Food, sex and danger - these are three things that will always attract the special attention of people because of the importance of their instincts. Have you noticed that a rare person will be able to walk past the scene of an accident without stopping or not trying to see what happened there? The reason is simple: since ancient times, man has an interest in what can be eaten, in order to remain well fed and healthy, with whom you can breed for procreation, what to avoid in order to survive.
Waiting and inaction makes a person nervous, so in such situations it is recommended to occupy yourself with reading or viewing news in newspapers or on a tablet, so as not to spoil the mood for trifles.
In any unfamiliar place, it is common for a person to want to go to the right side. This fact is useful because if you don’t want to wait long in the supermarket queue or go to a crowded cafe, always turn left.
The most pleasant sound to the human ear is its name. If you want to like the other person, just call him by name more often.
Scientists at the University of Oxford have proven that reading is the most effective and quickest cure for stress and depression. It turns out that it helps to relax much better than alcohol, shopping, walking and other popular means.

Psychology of human relations

When talking alone, people look into each other's eyes only 60% of the time. This figure can be exceeded among passionately in love couples and the aggressors.
A positive or negative attitude towards a person can arise already in the first 4 minutes of a conversation! It turns out that we need only a few minutes to determine whether we can communicate with the person further.
People often begin to have warm feelings for those who resemble their parents, with whom in childhood they had troubled relationships. According to statistics, alcoholic daughters often marry drunkards, and mama’s boys marry powerful women. This is explained by the fact that a person seeks to solve his children's problems, therefore he chooses such partners.
According to studies, people can be in love no more than a year. This is a romantic feeling, which, after 12 months, turns into either mature love or disappears.
Extreme situations, such as natural disasters, catastrophes, accidents and other unforeseen, life-threatening things, bring people together. This is due to the release of adrenaline into the bloodstream, which acts akin to the hormone of joy and love, dopamine.
Herd instinct is not a myth. Recently, French scientists have shown that most people trust public opinion more than themselves, and this happens at a subconscious level and is explained by the fact that people lived in tribes from ancient times and relied on the unity of mode of action - otherwise they could not survive.
According to the research of Chinese scientists, kindness is the most attractive quality of character for people. Positive actions make you feel sympathy even for a stranger.
The faces of people in group shots seem more attractive than in individual portraits. Scientists at the University of California called this result of their research a "cheerleader effect." In the course of their scientific experiment, people were asked to assess the degree of attractiveness of the people in the photo, and it turned out that the same individuals were evaluated differently depending on the nature of the pictures: they seemed to be more attractive than friends alone.

Features of male psychology

In fact, men are more deeply experiencing betrayal and parting with the objects of their love. According to statistics, a greater number of suicides due to unhappy love is committed by men.
30% of men do not remove the phone of his girlfriend, even after breaking up with her. Most explain this by hoping for at least "friendly sex" when the storm subsides a bit.
25% of men prefer to lie to their darling, just not to hurt her in their own words.
Most men say that up to 25 years they are not going to marry. However, statistics contradicts them: more than 50% marry at a very young age - from 18 to 24 years.
According to statistical studies, the life expectancy of married men is on average 3 years longer than that of bachelors. Psychologists explain this fact by the fact that husbands feel responsibility for their family, so they have a more developed self-preservation instinct.
After intercourse, a woman becomes less attractive to a man.
Since the left hemisphere of the brain in men is less developed, they are worse able to perceive emotionally intense speech. Because of this feature, men do not like it when women scream or cry.
Almost all men are waiting for intimacy on the first date. However, most of them admit that they are unlikely to continue their relationship with a woman who surrendered to them on the very first day.

Features of female psychology

Women begin to trust more to the man who hugged her even just for a few seconds when they met.
A woman feels discomfort in a situation when she has nothing in her hands. This particular feature of the weaker sex is the reason that all women love to go everywhere with bags.
Starting from kindergarten, the female sex speaks on average 4 times more than the male. In general, women are more prone to voicing their thoughts and feelings.
Kisses are valued by women much higher than sex. According to research conducted by psychologists, most women can tell in detail about their first kiss, while they remember their first intimate experience not so vividly.
The psychological state of a woman is directly related to her intimate health. So, when a woman is unhappy, she experiences depressions, and more often extinguished diseases, such as thrush, become more acute.
Scientists have shown that the degree of women's jealousy varies depending on the periods of her life. Women are the most jealous during the beginning of a relationship, during pregnancy and the first years of a child’s life.
Women feel sympathy for men when they are angry or angry, showing their negative emotions. It seems to them that throwing out their feelings, men open up to them more, so women have more confidence and empathy towards them.
Beautiful, well-groomed women often have better health. Beauty is directly dependent on the desire to like. And where does this desire come from? In women, this is inherent in nature: they want to attract a male to continue the race. Accordingly, women who look after their appearance also care more about their health.

And in the end - another interesting and useful fact: knowledge of psychological laws and facts usually complicates a person’s life, but putting them into practice in daily communication can simplify and improve it. Do not try to remember everything that you have read here, but rather choose the most useful for you and use in your life!