Who Are You? How would you answer that question? Most of us answer it by saying what we do, or what we have. By our jobs, by our accomplishments, by our families, by our connections. All of these are things outside of us. If I call myself a writer, it’s really a description of what […]
Cause and Effect
The Mystery Of The Human Mind One of the most confusing things, (or maybe not so confusing since we think we understand it and we really don’t) is the idea of cause and effect. On one hand, it seems simple. We see it happening all the time. It’s the one aspect of science we can […]
How To Get More Twitter Followers With Jedi Mind Tricks
Need more Twitter followers? By applying some proven technique from psychology, you’ll not only get more followers, but followers that are engaged, and will spread your message. While these techniques do work, they’ll require a little bit of effort on your part. But if you’re willing to put in twenty or so minutes a day, […]
Reduce Her Perceived Risks And Increase Your Success Rate
There’s a powerful technique from psychology that will make dating you seem like a natural thing to do. It’s called “commitment and consistency,” and it basically says that we keep doing the same things we’ve always done. Humans HATE taking risks. We don’t know how they’re going to come out. If we take a risk […]
The Incredible Importance Of Congruence
Here’s a quick test of your logical abilities – (full disclosure: 90% of psychology students AND yours true FAIL this “simple” logic test) This is called the Wason test, and was created by Dr. Wason in the 70’s. You see four cards laid out in front of you: a three, an eight, a brown card, […]
Give Her Something To Live Up To
When you give somebody a positive and socially desirable label, they will go to great lengths to keep it. Especially if you get their “buy in” when you first describe them in such a way. One way to introduce this into a conversation is to talk about other people in the opposite way. Let’s say […]