The harder you attempt to suppress a specific thought, the more frequently it enters your awareness.
Wegner et al., 1987, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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The harder you attempt to suppress a specific thought, the more frequently it enters your awareness.
Wegner et al., 1987, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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In a 1982 study, participants showed significantly lower recall for information delivered immediately before their own turn to speak.
Bond and Komoda, 1982, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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In a 1982 study, participants showed significantly lower recall for information delivered immediately before their own turn to speak.
Bond and Komoda, 1982, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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A 2008 study found that individuals experiencing social exclusion were more likely to attribute human-like intentions to inanimate gadgets.
Epley et al., 2008, Psychological Science
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A 2008 study found that individuals experiencing social exclusion were more likely to attribute human-like intentions to inanimate gadgets.
Epley et al., 2008, Psychological Science
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A 2012 study demonstrated that names easy to pronounce are judged as more trustworthy.
Laham et al., 2012, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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A 2012 study demonstrated that names easy to pronounce are judged as more trustworthy.
Laham et al., 2012, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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The study found that about 50% of participants reported being sure they heard the lure word.
Roediger and McDermott, 1995, Journal of Experimental Psychology
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The study found that about 50% of participants reported being sure they heard the lure word.
Roediger and McDermott, 1995, Journal of Experimental Psychology
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People consistently expect their expressions of gratitude to be less impactful than they actually are to the recipient.
Kumar and Epley, 2018, Psychological Science
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People consistently expect their expressions of gratitude to be less impactful than they actually are to the recipient.
Kumar and Epley, 2018, Psychological Science
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Attention Restoration Theory suggests that natural environments replenish your depleted cognitive resources, unlike urban environments.
Kaplan, 1995, Journal of Environmental Psychology
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Attention Restoration Theory suggests that natural environments replenish your depleted cognitive resources, unlike urban environments.
Kaplan, 1995, Journal of Environmental Psychology
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The seductive allure of neuroscience makes people believe that explanations are logically sound, even when they contain completely irrelevant brain science.
Weisberg et al., 2008, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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The seductive allure of neuroscience makes people believe that explanations are logically sound, even when they contain completely irrelevant brain science.
Weisberg et al., 2008, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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The 'arousal-biased competition' model states that emotional stimuli occupy your memory resources at the expense of neutral background details.
Mather and Sutherland, 2011, Perspectives on Psychological Science
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Research shows that participants in a 1975 study rated identical items as significantly more valuable simply because they were told supply was limited.
Worchel et al., 1975, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Research shows that participants in a 1975 study rated identical items as significantly more valuable simply because they were told supply was limited.
Worchel et al., 1975, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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The framing of a decision as a 'save' versus a 'loss' shifts your tolerance for risk, even when the math is identical.
Tversky and Kahneman (1981), The Framing of Decisions
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The framing of a decision as a 'save' versus a 'loss' shifts your tolerance for risk, even when the math is identical.
Tversky and Kahneman (1981), The Framing of Decisions
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The IKEA effect demonstrates that people assign higher value to projects or products when they have personally contributed to their creation.
Norton, M. I., Mochon, D., & Ariely, D., 2011, 'The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love'
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The IKEA effect demonstrates that people assign higher value to projects or products when they have personally contributed to their creation.
Norton, M. I., Mochon, D., & Ariely, D., 2011, 'The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love'
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A 1994 study demonstrated that repeatedly recalling a subset of learned information suppresses memory for related, unrecalled items.
Anderson et al., 1994, Journal of Experimental Psychology
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A 1994 study demonstrated that repeatedly recalling a subset of learned information suppresses memory for related, unrecalled items.
Anderson et al., 1994, Journal of Experimental Psychology
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When presented with lists containing fictional concepts, many people claim they are familiar with them.
Paulhus et al., 2003
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When presented with lists containing fictional concepts, many people claim they are familiar with them.
Paulhus et al., 2003
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The tip-of-the-tongue state represents a partial retrieval failure where you access the definition but not the label.
Brown & McNeill, 1966
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The tip-of-the-tongue state represents a partial retrieval failure where you access the definition but not the label.
Brown & McNeill, 1966
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Weber’s Law states that the just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to its intensity.
Weber's Law, Ernst Heinrich Weber
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Weber’s Law states that the just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to its intensity.
Weber's Law, Ernst Heinrich Weber
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🔬 Dynamics of variability and bias in working memory.
👤 Tomić et al., 2026
📖 Psychological Review
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🔬 Dynamics of variability and bias in working memory.
👤 Tomić et al., 2026
📖 Psychological Review
🔗 https://www.scilove.app/article/10.1037/rev0000645
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In 1956, Herbert Simon identified that people search for an option that meets a threshold rather than the mathematical maximum.
Simon, 1956, Psychological Review
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In 1956, Herbert Simon identified that people search for an option that meets a threshold rather than the mathematical maximum.
Simon, 1956, Psychological Review
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A 2002 study showed that participants who hit a punching bag to vent anger were more aggressive than those who sat quietly.
Brad Bushman (2002) in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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A 2002 study showed that participants who hit a punching bag to vent anger were more aggressive than those who sat quietly.
Brad Bushman (2002) in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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Psychological essentialism leads you to believe that objects and people have an underlying, unchanging nature.
Medin and Ortony (1989) on psychological essentialism
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Psychological essentialism leads you to believe that objects and people have an underlying, unchanging nature.
Medin and Ortony (1989) on psychological essentialism
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Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out and favor information that validates your pre-existing opinions.
Nickerson, 1998, Review of General Psychology
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Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out and favor information that validates your pre-existing opinions.
Nickerson, 1998, Review of General Psychology
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A 1959 study demonstrated that individuals rated a discussion group as more interesting if they had to undergo an embarrassing initiation to join it.
Aronson & Mills, 1959, Effort Justification
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A 1959 study demonstrated that individuals rated a discussion group as more interesting if they had to undergo an embarrassing initiation to join it.
Aronson & Mills, 1959, Effort Justification
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Watching Netflix's The New Stanford Prison Experiment? Go deeper with Thibault Le Texier’s 'Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie.'
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Watching Netflix's The New Stanford Prison Experiment? Go deeper with Thibault Le Texier’s 'Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie.'
📖 Discover the book: bit.ly/4eI2wac
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