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| Happiness, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, and surprise are the six emotions that are universally expressed. |
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| Chocolate discharges the same chemical into your body that is produced when you start falling in love. |
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| People are more honest when physically tired. This is why people confess things during late night conversations. |
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| A hug longer than twenty seconds will release chemicals into your body that make you trust the person you're hugging. |
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| Human behavioral studies suggest that a person who loses their cell phone experiences a panic similar to a near death experience. |
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| Your decisions are more rational when thought in another language. |
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| Religious practices, like prayer and attending services, is associated with lower levels of psychological distress. |
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| The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950’s. |
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| 68% of the people suffer from Phantom Vibration Syndrome, the feeling that one’s phone is vibrating when it’s not. |
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| The brain treats rejection like physical pain. |
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| Phobias may be memories passed down through generations in DNA, according to a new research. |
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| Romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from having a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
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| The type of music, you listen to affects the way you perceive the world. |
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| Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life. |
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| Your mind "rewrites" monotonous speech of boring people to make it sound more interesting. |
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| The more uncertain you are, the more you dig in and defend your ideas. |
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| Even the illusion of progress is motivating. |
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| Smart people underestimate themselves, and ignorant people think they’re brilliant. |
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| Convincing yourself you slept well tricks your brain into thinking it did. |
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| Being with happy people makes you happier. |
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| Depression is the result of over thinking. The mind creates problems that didn’t even exist. |
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| We seem to ignore the ones who adore us & pay more attention to those who ignore us. |
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| Memories get distorted over time. The average human has at least one false piece of memory. |
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| Opposites don’t attract. You’re more likely to be attracted someone who looks and thinks the same as you do. |
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| Seeing others positively reveals our positive traits, seeing others negatively reveals our negative traits. |
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| People with low self-esteem tend to “try” and humiliate others. |
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| People who view TV crime shows consistently overestimate the frequency of crime in the real world. |
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| The placebo effect is getting more powerful over time. As medical technology improves, our faith in medicine becomes stronger. |
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| Volunteers are significantly more satisfied with their lives than non-volunteers. |
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| Holding hands with someone you love can alleviate physical pain as well as stress and fear. |
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| Optimistic beliefs about the future can protect people from physical and mental illness. |
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| Falling in love has a similar neurological effect as getting high on cocaine. |
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| Your brain does more creative work when you’re tired. |
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| Research has found that good relationships are more important to a long life than exercise. |
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| People tend to be happier when they are kept busy, as this prevents them from thinking about the negative things in life. |
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