Negativity Bias: Why Negative Things Stand Out
Positive thinking can feel like a job to do, while negative thinking seems to happen more automatically. In fact, this is true at a very …
Perception
Study: Smiling Makes You More Attractive
A study by Golle, Mast & Lobmaier (2013) shows how emotional expressions of happiness influence the judgment of attractiveness.
Psychology Shows How We Recognize Faces
Whenever we perceive another person, the first things we notice are very general features like gender and age, according to the feature theory of face …
How We Perceive Depth (Monucular and Binocular Depth Cues)
The eye (i.e., the retina) receives sensory input in only two dimensions (length and width). It is therefore the brain’s task to make these cues …
How The Brain Makes Sense of Sensory Stimuli: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
To create our perceptions, the brain makes use of two processing systems, namely the bottom-up and the top-down processing system.
Actor-Observer Bias: Why We Blame Other People Instead of Ourselves
The actor-observer bias is the tendency that people view their own actions as caused by the situational context, while others’ actions are seen as caused …