15 Psychology Secrets Most People Don’t Know!

In this video, we cover psychology secrets that most people don’t know! These psychological tricks and facts cover everything from biases to the pygmalion effect.

This video is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Sources:

Decision Cascades in Social Networks
https://phys.org/news/2014-12-decision-cascades-social-networks.html

Learning from the Behavior of Others
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3690/85340da05832bcc6d97a2469a7b5d10550ba.pdf

Does Automation Bias Decision-Making?
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.464.8149&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Effects of Automation Bias on Decision Making and Performance
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Linda_Skitka/publication/11805395_Automation_Bias_Decision_Making_and_Performance_in_High-Tech_Cockpits/links/0912f511ea2be025b8000000/Automation-Bias-Decision-Making-and-Performance-in-High-Tech-Cockpits.pdf

Rapid Responding Increases Belief Bias
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13546780542000005

Ironic Processes in Eating Behaviors
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/HAW_Schut/publication/9026821_Ironic_processes_in_the_eating_behaviour_of_restrained_eaters/links/5b236844a6fdcc6974650494/Ironic-processes-in-the-eating-behaviour-of-restrained-eaters.pdf

Ironic Processes in the Mental Control of Mood
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ralph_Erber/publication/14904416_Ironic_Processes_in_the_Mental_Control_of_Mood_and_Mood-Related_Thought/links/58b46bf192851cf7ae940ffa/Ironic-Processes-in-the-Mental-Control-of-Mood-and-Mood-Related-Thought.pdf

Stanford Encyclopedia: The Paradox of Suspense
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-suspense/

Distinction Bias: Misprediction and Mischoice
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8545828_Distinction_Bias_Misprediction_and_Mischoice_Due_to_Joint_Evaluation

Memories for Time: How people date events
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03193393

The Peak-End Rule: How Impressions Become Memories
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/peak-end-rule/

Google Effects on Memory
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/776

Recent Advances in False Memory Research

Recent Advances in False Memory Research

Deconstructing the Better-Than Average Effect
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-21640-002

Why Familiar Routes Fly By

The Well-Travelled Road Effect: Why Familiar Routes Fly By

Pygmalion Effect in Sports
https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/jsep/1/4/article-p311.xml

Neural Mechanisms Involved in Pareidolia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290235/

Dysrationalia Among University Students
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396694/

Music: “Straight” from Bensound.com

Thanks to Tristan Reed (writing), Troy W. Hudson (VO) for helping to create this video!