Psychology
Exploring "Why" questions about Psychology
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Why is it on hot days, I can stick my hand out a car window while driving and feel a cool breeze?
The air outside the car isn't at 100% relative humidity. There's room for it to absorb more water by evaporation. So as you stick your sweaty disgusting paw out your window, the water on your nasty mi
Why is it incorrect to say “listening that” but not incorrect to say “watching that”, “feeling that”, “seeing that”, etc.?
Because "listening" isn't to hearing as "watching" is to sight. "Listening" corresponds to "looking". As it would be incorrect to say "looking that", it's incorrect to say "listening that".
why do patterns of three feel so ‘right’ to us? does this differ in different parts of the world?
My theory is this: Imagine somebody on stage, speaking. He starts a list. The first item is just a thing: nothing special.
Why do we feel less need to pee when we are walking?
The urge to pee is something which can be suppressed by the sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system activity, or becomes more obvious when parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system activit
Why do we forget waking up in the middle of the night?
When you sleep the memory section of your brain stops recording just like the motor sections stop sending signals to your limbs. It is possible to be woken up by something without regaining full consc
Why does Google use so much money on the “I’m feeling lucky” button?
I think you mean that they lose money on the button. Using the button avoids ads which is a key source of income.
why do we feel energized after shower?
Hot showers relaxes muscles and releases oxytocin -which eases stress-. Cold showers, on the other hand, put the brain on an alert state, thus "waking" or "energizing" -as you said- the body. I believ
Why do dogs love humans so much?
We bread them that way. We started out with wolves, that we could barely get along with. Over the generations occasionally one of the wolf puppies was a bit more friendly to humans than its litter-mat
Why do websites like Facebook and Youtube feel a constant need to change format?
'If it ain't broke dont fix it' means nothing to executives. If they aren't changing anything, what is their purpose within the company? They have to prove their worth with new innovative changes to b
Why do people tend to hate the sound of their own voice in a recording?
You're usually hearing your voice not just with your ears, but transmitted through your jawbone, which changes the sound. When you hear a recording, you just get the sound, which is familiar but *wron