All About Psychology
If we compare a current home with one fifty years ago, we will discover that we accumulate all kinds of objects, many of them not only unnecessary but completely useless. In barely half a century, our …
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In 1765, the Russian Empress Catherine the Great knew that the philosopher Dennis Diderot urgently needed money. Since she was a patron of the arts, sciences and philosophers of the Enlightenment, she …
[Read more...] about Diderot Effect: How can we become slaves of consumerism without realizing it?
We believe that taste is something that we perceive objectively, but it’s not true. Numerous studies have shown that flavor perceptions is influenced by many factors, most of which escape our …
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We are very suggestible, much more than we would be willing to acknowledge. In fact, we perceive details of our surroundings that end influencing unconsciously our “supposedly” rational decisions. For …
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Subliminal messages are processed in the brain but they fail to reach conscience. About how they could affect our behaviors and decisions is still a widely researched issue, and although the opinions …
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