Psychology
Exploring "Why" questions about Psychology
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Why do we hear new songs on repeat and love them but after a while we hate them?
Your brain is full of synapses--connections that fire when activated by stimuli, in this case, a song. You can think of it as a movie. The first few times you watch it you notice things you didn't the
Why do we consciously make bad/wrong decisions, even though we know the outcome will be bad?
Humans are wired to forget how a bad experience **feels**. You get arrested, the entire experience sucks and you're miserable. The next week, you're looking at it and laughing about it.
Why can a psychological condition/state (like stress) cause physiological effects?
Your mind is not independent from your body. You "feel" stressed because your body is releasing chemicals, raising your heart rate, etc. Every emotion you have does something to your body.
Why would Putin and Obama leave something as important as their Crimea negotiations to ambassadors? Isn’t it way too important for anything less than Sec. of State or Russian equivalent?
The Secretary of State is like the captain of a team, it doesn't mean they are the best ball player. Also, ambassadors are specialized in certain areas. An ambassador to Russia would have a lot of exp
Why do some adults feel attracted to children and not people of the same age range
In short, we don't know, and the fact that the ideas of child sexual abusers (which are not always pedophiles, similarly not all pedophiles are child abusers) and the stigma that comes with that is so
Why do humans feel the need to take care of small/vulnerable/”cute” animals?
We're biologically tuned to love creatures with certain characteristics - big eyes, pudgy round faces and limbs, tiny mouths, etc. - because that's the way our young need to be designed for functional
Why is suicide / assisted not covered under a pro choice mentality
Suicide is generally agreed to be a symptom of mental illness. A person whose mental health is severely compromised is considered to be incapable of giving informed consent, an important requirement f
Why do Americans hate socialism or even the term socialism?
Because historically American culture has embraced and celebrated individualism, so there is significant cultural bias against a worldview where non-earning individuals are granted access to the same
Why don’t we all work together cooperatively and be a “big happy family”?
Find a definition of "happy" that we all agree with, and a means of achieving it and I'm sure we all can be.
Why is India unhappy about Nepal’s constitution?
They are concerned that the new constitution doesn't give equal power to different population groups within Nepal. The Indian government fears that this imbalance in power will create civil unrest, so