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625 articles · Relationships & Society
The chameleon effect describes automatic behavioural matching. Experiments have linked subtle mimicry to liking, trust and persuasion, but the effects depend strongly on context.
Empathy's most popular trick—imagining yourself in someone else's shoes—backfired spectacularly in 25 studies; simply asking them what they thought worked far better.
How close you let someone get has less to do with your past than with the person standing in front of you right now.
When older adults internalize stereotypes about their tech abilities, they withdraw from digital tools entirely—suggesting the real barrier isn't resistance but the weight of expectation itself.
Jung’s famous statement about patients over 35 was a clinical conviction, not a modern trial. Research supports a link between meaning and wellbeing, but not his universal conclusion.
A simple reframing—pursue discomfort rather than endure it—fundamentally changes how people engage with challenging tasks, new research shows.
What makes someone truly selfish has less to do with how they act and everything to do with what they believe they deserve.
The famous friendship and intelligence result was statistically significant but tiny, correlational and based on a one-week contact measure in young US adults.
The action-inaction reversal in regret has partly replicated in larger modern samples, although effect sizes, personal-regret results and long-term majorities differ.
Experience-sampling and habit research suggests that disciplined people often face fewer goal-conflicting temptations, partly because routines and environments move self-control upstream.
Wiseman reported that 80 per cent of Luck School volunteers felt luckier after one month. The result is intriguing, but it was self-reported and not a randomised controlled trial.
The psychology of "deep thinking" is real, but the viral checklists claiming to identify it rely on a flattering trick that works on almost everyone.
