Believe and you will achieve.
The degree to which people believe in themselves and their own capabilities is important for their motivation and success. People’s capabilities are important, but what they believe they can do is at least as important! Continue reading
When we think of people with a high self-control, we cannot avoid thinking about how restrained and deprived they might be. Whenever we restrain ourselves, we tend to think that we are missing something. Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health, Self-control, Success, Well-being
Tagged happiness, life satisfaction, self-control, self-discipline
Do you forget things easily? Try these mnemonic devices.
The deeper we process information, the better we will remember it. It’s as simple as that. Luckily, there is a way to improve our memory, but it takes effortful and intentional processing. This means, if we want to improve our memory, we must practice. Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Memory, Self-help
Tagged learning, memory, memory palace, sherlock holmes
People may affect your mood in either a positive or negative way. You might want to avoid that negative moods affect you too much. This post describes how to do it.
The idea of emotional contagion goes back to 400 B.C., when Hippocrates found that some women transferred their strong emotions to others. Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health, Psychology, Self-help
Tagged emotional contagion, the ripple effect
We all get bored once in a while, but how do we overcome it? There are three ways to do it.
A medium has no value in itself, but it can be traded for another desired outcome. An effort may lead to a medium that, in turn, may lead to an outcome.
Posted in Cognitive Bias, Organizational Psychology, Success
Tagged happiness, the medium effect
Psychological myopia refers to the tendency in decision makers to focus on information immediately related to their judgment and to ignore other, less prominent, pieces of information. Continue reading
Kell and colleagues (2013) published a longitudinal study on highly gifted individuals. The authors wanted to examine whether the talents of these individuals predicted their future success such as work and study accomplishments. Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, Success
My name is Simon Moesgaard, a psychologist from Denmark, and this is my blog about psychology.
