Two to ten times a day - that's how often we lie. Men mainly to impress, women to make the other person feel good. But which signals betray the liar? Watch the videos below and see how lying works. Liar 1: Bill Clinton The then president denied in 1998 that he had had an affair with the young trainee Monica Lewinsky.
Category: Psychology
Steen wins from scissors. Scissors beat paper. And paper wins from stone. Those are the rules of the simple three-round game, which has probably determined more important things over the centuries than who has to do the dishes. You only need to know five things to always be the winner.
In the years 1980-1990 the Austrian 'black widow' Elfriede Blauensteiner managed to persuade many elderly men to include her in their will, after which she killed them with poison. Around 2000, the Chinese Yang Xinhai invaded remote homes and killed all residents with ax, hammer or shovel.
"It was a serious error of judgment and a personal failure on my part, for which I am solely responsible." Bill Clinton said that on national television in 1998 after the sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky. And the president's knee was not badly formulated, according to an investigation into the art of saying sorry.
You will hardly find violent, murderous psychopaths like Hannibal Lecter in real life. There are criminal psychopaths, but most are not at all violent. There is a good chance that such a non-violent psychopath is also present at work. Do you have a psychopath at work? Researchers from the American Emory University have made a list of jobs for which so-called successful psychopaths - who are not violent - have a preference: Administrative Director Lawyer Radio or TV planner Salesman Surgeon Journalist Policeman Pastor Cook Administrative staff It's generally work that they are in control and where power plays a major role.
Sociopaths and psychopaths have a condition in common that is called antisocial personality disorder in psychiatry. According to scientists and psychologists, sociopathy is caused by environmental factors, such as physical or psychological abuse in youth. Spot a sociopath A sociopath can be recognized by a large number of characteristics.
No less than 25 percent of the European population suffers from stress to a greater or lesser extent. This is apparent from the largest research in this area to date, conducted by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) in 2013. Stress is a state that occurs in the brain when you are under pressure.
1. The headline sounds too good to be true The truth is probably a bit thicker in the headline, so read on and see if the article itself provides a more nuanced picture. For example: 'Japanese plant stops aging' Aging is a complex phenomenon in which all kinds of body processes play a role, including the accumulation of waste in the cells and changes in the DNA.
A symptom of schizophrenia is hearing voices. This can lead to many problems in daily life. Researchers from the Uni-versité de Caen in France may have discovered a button that you can use to turn those votes off. Researchers give brains electrical currents The researchers showed that the voices are silent when the patient's brain is exposed to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
'You really don't have to be afraid of anything' is a statement that almost everyone has heard regularly, especially as a child when our parents thought it was nonsense that we didn't want to get out of the light, or were afraid of a spider or the dog of the neighbours. A lot of people are afraid of something. Here is a list of phobias that bother many people.
A different construction of the brain, abnormal brain activity and extra chromosomes are three factors that investigators and doctors can pay extra attention to if they are looking for a serial killer in the future. Popular Science writes that. According to Kent Kiehl, professor of neuroscience, the brain of a serial killer is abnormal.
Bone fractures, diabetes, cancer and other conditions are tangible for doctors because they are accompanied by damaged tissue, abnormal measurement results or visible infections. This offers good starting points for finding out the cause and coming up with a treatment for it. Doctors can also follow the course of the disease and see if the patient is improving or healed.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious form of anxiety associated with previous events. War veterans and victims of violence, torture, traffic accidents or robberies can be bothered for years by what they have experienced, because every time they are reminded of the event, the same strong feelings return.
Your brain puts up to 80 percent of the energy in an extensive network of nerve cells that determine how you react to your environment independently of your consciousness. That is the conclusion of the American brain scientist Marcus Raichle. He called the huge network the default mode network or the default network.
Schizophrenia is a serious condition that is accompanied by compulsions, hallucinations, and disturbances of thought and emotional life. The genes determine to a large extent how likely someone is to develop schizophrenia, but the disease usually occurs only as a result of social and psychological pressure or through drug use.
OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) was previously called compulsive neurosis and includes compulsive acts and thoughts. These can be expressed in many ways. Often - but not always - compulsions follow a meticulous pattern, such as turning the light on and off a certain number of times when you enter or leave a room, walking in a certain way, or making sure that you are only at the center of the sidewalk tiles runs.
Can you measure how empathetic someone is? According to a team of scientists at Michigan State University, the answer is yes. Their recently published research ranks countries based on the empathy of the population for the first time. And the results are clear. The empathy world champion is Ecuador, and Saudi Arabia and Peru are taking off silver and bronze.
Two to ten times a day - that's how often we lie. Men mainly to impress, women to make the other person feel good. But which signals betray the liar? Watch the videos below and see how lying works. Liar 1: Bill Clinton The then president denied in 1998 that he had had an affair with the young trainee Monica Lewinsky.