Learning new things is always interesting, but it is especially fun if it is about yourself. Psychology is often looked down as a way of treatment, but it can be very helpful if you are trying to assess relationships and personalities. Understanding the psychology behind our behavior, can be very helpful for understanding other people as well.
Relationships
1. Friendships that started between the ages of 16 and 18 have a higher chance of being long-lasting.
2. Marrying your best friend reduces the risk of a divorce by more than 70% and it also increases the chances of a lifetime marriage.
3. Holding the hand of a person you love helps you feel less pain and also worry less.
4. Women prefer men with deep husky voices because they seem more confident.
Men and women
5. Men are not funnier than women, in fact they are more confident in telling jokes than women because they don’t care whether others like their sense of humor.
6. Women have 2 times more pain receptors than men, but they can tolerate pain a lot more than them.
7. On average, a woman keeps a secret for 47 hours and 15 minutes.
8. Women who have more male friends are often in a good mood.
Intelligence and advice
9. People who give more advice are usually the ones that face the most problems.
10. Smart people tend to have sloppier handwriting because of their faster train of thoughts.
11. People who have a strong sense of conscience and guilt are better at understanding how other people think and feel.
12. Intelligent people usually have less friends because the more intelligent the person, the more selective they become in their choice of friends.
Happiness
13. Your cell phone can be very useful for your happiness as giving and receiving good morning and good night text messages stimulate the part of the brain responsible for happiness.
14. Doing things that scare you might make you feel happy, even though it sounds unusual. In fact, it boosts your confidence thus making you feel good about yourself.
15. Trying to make everyone else happy will make you feel the loneliest. You can’t please everyone.
16. Happier people don’t need lots of sleep.
17. Listening to high-frequency music will make you feel happy, calm and relaxed.
Character
18. You tell a lot about your personality through the way you treat restaurant staff.
19. Our emotions don’t affect the way we communicate, in fact, our way of communications influences our mood.
20. Shy people tend to speak less about themselves, but when they do others feel they know them very well.
21. If two people are having a conversation and one of them slightly turns their feet away or moves one food in an outward direction, it means there is a strong disagreement and that person wants to leave or end the conversation.
People and problems
22. If your mind is too busy during the night and you can’t fall asleep, write down your thoughts.
23. Being alone for too long is just as unhealthy as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
24. People who speak 2 or more languages unconsciously change their personalities according to the language they speak.
25. Traveling increases your brain health and reduces your risk of depression and heart disease.
26. When people talk about the things they are passionate about, they seem very attractive.