Psychology & Mind Facts

The first number you see before making an estimate quietly biases your final answer, even when that number is random.

Each of your eyes has a blind spot, but your brain fills in the gap so you never notice it.

People are less likely to help someone in an emergency when more bystanders are present.

The most vivid memories of shocking events are often the least accurate ones.

Once you learn a new word or idea, you suddenly start noticing it everywhere, a quirk known as the frequency illusion.

What you see can change what you hear, a phenomenon called the McGurk effect.

Simply being exposed to something repeatedly tends to make people like it more.

Inert treatments with no active ingredients can still produce measurable improvements in symptoms.

People tend to remember the first and last items on a list far better than the ones in the middle.

Naming the ink color of a mismatched color word takes noticeably longer than naming the color of a plain block.