Oddly Psychology Content Index

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Cognitive Dissonance

The psychology of why we justify bad habits

Rationalizing a regretful purchase as "a good investment"Staying in a toxic relationship thinking "there are good times too"Justifying skipping a workout as "rest is important"

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Dunning-Kruger Effect

Why incompetent people are often the most confident

A novice driver believing they are an expertReading a few articles and claiming to be an expertAn expert saying "I still have a lot to learn"

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Anchoring Effect

The first number you see controls your judgment

Original price \$100, Sale price \$50 - looks cheapStarting salary negotiations with a high figureRestaurant menus placing expensive items to make others look reasonable

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Confirmation Bias

Seeing only what you want to see

Believers in blood type personality theory remembering only matching casesReading only news that aligns with your political viewNoticing only the mistakes of someone you dislike

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Sunk Cost Fallacy

Throwing good money after bad

Watching a boring movie to the end because you paid for the ticketInvesting more in a failing business to "save" previous investmentsStaying in an unhappy relationship because of the time already spent

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Bystander Effect

Why no one helps when everyone is watching

No one helping a person collapsed on a busy streetEveryone hesitating to ask a question in a meetingAssuming someone else will do the group project work

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PERSONALITY TYPE

Personality Type Test

Discover your personality type with 20 questions.

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Source Jung, C.G. (1921). Psychological Types / Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

STRESS INDEX

Stress Level Test

Measure your stress level over the last month. Based on Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).

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SELF-ESTEEM

Self-Esteem Test

Analyze your self-esteem in depth with 20 questions. Check how strong your self-love is.

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BURNOUT SYNDROME

Burnout Syndrome Test

How tired is your mind right now? Precisely diagnose emotional exhaustion and reduced sense of accomplishment with 20 questions. (For Entertainment)

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Source Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-GS)

DATING STYLE

Romantic Attachment Style

20 questions to explore your romantic attachment style. (For Entertainment)

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Source Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) Scale

DARK TRIAD

Dark Triad Test

What are the dark instincts hidden inside me? Analyzing Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy traits with 21 questions.

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John B. Watson · 1920

Little Albert Experiment

· Johns Hopkins University

A shocking experiment that infused fear into a 9-month-old baby. Albert, who liked rats, came to fear anything furry.

Philip Zimbardo · 1971

Stanford Prison Experiment

Social Psychology · Stanford University

An infamous experiment stopped in 6 days. Ordinary students became sadistic monsters when assigned the role of "guards".

Harry Harlow · 1958

Harlow's Monkey Experiment

Developmental Psychology · University of Wisconsin

Proved "love" matters more than food using monkeys. famous for its cruelty but showed importance of contact comfort.

Simons & Chabris · 1999

The Invisible Gorilla

Cognitive Psychology · Harvard University

A gorilla walks through the screen and half the people miss it! Shows how easily our brains are fooled.

Roger Sperry · 1960

Split-Brain Experiment

Neuroscience · Caltech

Two minds in one body? Patients with severed corpus callosum revealed left and right brains have different "wills".

Stanley Milgram · 1961

Milgram Obedience Experiment

Social Psychology · Yale University

"I was just following orders." Can normal people torture others? 65% administered "fatal" shocks.

Ivan Pavlov · 1897

Pavlov's Dog

Learning Psychology · Military Medical Academy

Discovered that dogs "predict" food. Bells making dogs salivate won him a Nobel Prize.

Solomon Asch · 1951

Asch Conformity Experiment

Social Psychology · Swarthmore College

Would you ignore your own eyes to agree with the group? 75% did at least once.

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Basic

Psychology

The scientific study of mind and behavior, exploring the causes and processes of human thought, emotion, and action.

Cognitive Psychology

Cognition

The mental processes of acquiring, storing, transforming, and using information. Includes perception, memory, thinking, language, and problem-solving.

Reading a book and understanding its content, solving a math problem

Cognitive Psychology

Metacognition

Awareness of one's own thought processes. Knowing what you know and what you don't know.

Cognitive Psychology

Schema

An organized knowledge structure about the world. Acts as a framework for interpreting and remembering new information.

"Restaurant" schema: sit down, look at the menu, order, eat, pay

Cognitive Psychology

Heuristic

Experience-based shortcuts for quickly solving complex problems. Efficient but can cause errors.

Availability heuristic: judging that what comes to mind easily is more common

Cognitive Psychology

Framing Effect

The phenomenon where people react differently to a choice depending on how it is presented (framed).

90% survival rate (Positive frame) vs 10% mortality rate (Negative frame)

Cognitive Psychology

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs.

Cognitive Psychology

Gambler's Fallacy

The mistaken belief that if an event happens more frequently than normal, it will happen less frequently in the future.

Cognitive Psychology

Sunk Cost Fallacy

The phenomenon where a person is reluctant to abandon a course of action because they have invested heavily in it.

Watching a boring movie until the end just because you paid for it.

Cognitive Psychology

Flow

A psychological state of being deeply absorbed in an activity, losing track of time and self-awareness. Occurs when skill level matches challenge difficulty.

Staying up all night engrossed in a game or hobby

Social Psychology

Cognitive Dissonance

An uncomfortable psychological state experienced when there is inconsistency between one's beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

The discomfort smokers feel knowing that smoking is harmful

Social Psychology

Groupthink

A phenomenon where the desire for harmony in a decision-making group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision.

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