Psychology
Exploring "Why" questions about Psychology
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Why moving around makes me feel like I don’t need to pee as badly
There are groups of muscles, like a sphincter, which everyone learns to use to control the release of urine from the bladder (*protip : these muscles are also used in conjunction with ejaculation in m
Why do people have different kinds of laughter?
Lots of factors. Some of them are physical - people have different pitched voices, different body sizes and differently-shaped insides, and that changes the way anything that comes out of their mouths
Why does the United States on a whole go through so many periods of Xenophobia, when it is and has mostly always been an immigrant country?
You will likely have a much better result asking this question in /r/asksocialscience. I would actually question the basic assumptions inherent in your question before even trying to answer. Has the U
Why does so much of the world hate Isreal?
Its not hate, its a strong dislike of their racist policies. Like giving african immigrants long term birth control without their knowledge. Having a economic blockade on Palestine.
Why do I feel bad after masturbating?
It's a lot of different things adding up. A lot of cultures have stigmatized self-pleasure (or sometimes any kind of pleasure at all) to be considered shaming. In addition, you may have some level of
Why do programmers hate using “GOTO” so much?
GOTO makes a program hard to read. The main reasons functions are used instead of GOTOs is that they are easier to modify, debug, and understand without going into details of how they are implemented.
Why do people with Autism have difficulty with emotions and empathy? What is going on in their brains that are different?
Unfortunately, that is still unknown. Autism, while definitely existing, is very difficult to prove. There's no specific mechanism behind it.
Why does amnesia or alzheimers seem to only affect memory and not language?
It has to do with the difference between procedural memory, which is the type of memory that allows us to carry out a variety of tasks seemingly without thinking, and episodic memory, which is the typ
Why do Americans say “Merry” Christmas while other English-speaking countries use the phrase “Happy Christmas”?
New Zealanders say Merry Christmas. Source: New Zealander, only ever heard Happy Christmas in Harry Potter.
Why do we find snow beautiful? I understand green land and blue sky is lovely because it symbolises warmth and fertility but surely snow = cold and death in our subconscious?
Snow is quiet. Solitude. Serenity.