Why do people like jerks?
https://qr.ae/prWcwS People don’t like jerks. It isn’t the jerk that people like. It is themselves. People view a jerk as a means to feel like they are better than everyone…
Dunning–Kruger effect
Did you know about the Dunning–Kruger effect? It is a cognitive bias where people with low ability, expertise, or experience tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. We often face…
From Overwhelmed to Empowered: How Labeling Your Emotions Can Help You Take Control
Emotions play a central role in how you experience life. If you frequently feel angry, depressed, and anxious, then your quality of life isn’t going to be great. If you…
How to Calm Someone Down
We’ve all likely encountered someone who’s acting angry or hysterical. A customer flips his lid at you because he didn’t get his order exactly how he wanted it. A co-worker…
Emotion Selectively Distorts Our Recollections
Ingfei Chen in Scientific American: (From 2012) Amid the endless stream of everyday experience, emotion is like a blazing neon tag that alerts the brain, “Yoo-hoo, this is a moment…
A new study suggests that people who become affluent have less sympathy for the poor than the born rich do
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-upwardly-mobile-feel-about-wealth-11657807077?st=3mtfzfubq9rfa7e The rags-to-riches story is such an enduring part of American identity that it somehow feels unpatriotic to doubt it. Consider celebrities like Dolly Parton, Ray Charles or Arnold Schwarzenegger—to…
Sunday Firesides: If You See Something, Say Something
In a classic experiment conducted by the psychologist Solomon Asch, participants were placed in a group, shown a “target” line alongside a set of comparison lines of varying lengths, and…
What do narcissists dislike?
BEING WRONG……..Oh boy, do Narcissists HATE being wrong. They despise being proven wrong. It doesn’t matter about what. You see, they think they are ALWAYS right about everything. So when…