Throughout our lives, we are ruled by our basic instincts. Whether we act on them or not is beside the point. It’s that gut reaction that tells you not to trust someone, or that feeling that tells you something isn’t right. According to the Enneagram of personality, there are three basic instincts that people have [...]
A pathological liar is incredibly skilled at lying. They can keep up with their twisted stories and do it so smoothly that it will be almost impossible to notice. This can be a habit or simply insecurities, but ultimately, lying makes them feel better. Although everyone can tell little lies here and there, a pathological [...]
Everyone works so hard to make good first impressions that it can often be misleading as to the type of person they truly are. These false first impressions can lead to us feeling let down or fooled by people we thought were friends or those we felt were important. We are constantly around people, and [...]
Some of the below facts about relationships and love may surprise you, yet, they all are based on actual scientific research. Ask anyone what their greatest wish in life is and the majority will tell you it is to be loved. But why are we conditioned to love, what exactly is it and once we’ve [...]
Dealing with guilt is not an easy task, and we all face situations in life where we blame ourselves for something. Guilt is an emotion we experience that is connected to an action in the past whereby we feel remorse or shame. It typically occurs when we have regretted something we have done. However, when [...]
Have you heard about grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism? This distinction is not known by many. We are all familiar with the personality type of the narcissist, but now researchers have defined the narcissism into two very distinct categories: the grandiose narcissism and the vulnerable narcissism. Whilst we might recognise that all narcissists have some [...]
Narcissistic sociopath is someone who has a combination of a narcissistic personality and sociopathic traits. Could there be one in your life? Once upon a time, people were either mad or bad, and that was the level to which we distinguished between the two. Nowadays, there are all kinds of labels on all kinds of [...]
Social psychology experiments can give us great insight into how we think, behave and act. They help us to explain how our thoughts are influenced by others, how group dynamics work, and how we perceive others. Here are six of the most important social psychology experiments: The Milgram Experiment After the atrocities of WW2, scientists [...]
