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• [article] How to terrify an infant — 2 Sep 2015
  <p><a href="https://btr.mt/analects/nature-vs-nurture-doesnt-matter-lecture">Nature vs Nurture</a>. The ultimate psychological debate. For some reason, we’ve spent almost 100 years debating whether people are a product of the environment they are raised i…
• [article] The struggle to be good; early psychology — 28 Aug 2015
  <p>Sigmund Freud was an unusual dude. He had some wacky ideas. But he also had some very useful ones. Prior to Freud, not very many people took the study of the mind very seriously. One of his more useful conceptions was his 1923 ‘Structural Model’, essen…
• [article] The 'inkblot test' ain't worth your time — 25 Aug 2015
  <p>Psychologists aren’t allowed to tell you about certain things. Especially certain kinds of tests. Why? Well, it’ll ruin them for you. They won’t be ‘valid’ anymore and if you ever need or want testing, they’ll be rendered less valuable. However, there …
• [article] Mommy and I are one - subliminal messaging is bloody weird — 13 Aug 2015
  Subliminal messaging is more subtle, and weirder than we typically imagine.
• [article] Talking to yourself ain't crazy (but you're doing it wrong) — 7 Aug 2015
  <p>Talking to yourself is awesome. You’ve been doing it since you were two. Ever notice kids playing often talk themselves through what’s happening? Say they were playing with a Tonka truck, it might sound like this:</p> <blockquote> <p>…the wheels go her…
• [article] How conversation sparks intimacy — 5 Aug 2015
  Conversation is obviously a source of intimacy. But you mightn’t expect it to be one of the predominant sources. Often we consider intimacy as a function of physical closeness. But intimicy is about relational closeness in any form. And conversation is an extremely powerful way to generate it.
• [article] The power of touch - Four extraordinary effects — 31 Jul 2015
  <p>Human contact is an amazing thing. Just touching someone can have extraordinary effects on people. It’s been shown to release all sorts of chemicals and have all sorts of cognitive effects. In this article, we list four of the most powerful effects tha…
• [article] How to get people to pay attention — 29 Jul 2015
  <p>You can’t process everything that you can sense. It’s not possible. Think of all the things that are coming in from outside. The sounds, smells, sights. It would be like drinking from a firehose. We’ve got to have a way to limit that information; to cu…
• [article] What is love? — 25 Jul 2015
  <p>What’s love? It’s a tough idea to wrap our heads around. We’ve talked about it <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/the-point-of-love">here</a>, and <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/types-of-love">here</a>, and &lt;a href=“https://btr.mt/analects/emotion-in-r…
• [article] The 'love' hormone isn't so lovely — 24 Jul 2015
  <p>Oxytocin has been called ‘the great facilitator of life’ and rarely have we celebrated a chemical like we do oxytocin. People get this bad boy &lt;a rel=“nofollow noopener” target=“_blank“ class=“external-link” href=“https://www.google.com.au/search?q=oxy…
• [article] Learning isn't all about memory — 22 Jul 2015
  <p>Learning isn’t all about memory. Not in the traditional sense. Much of our learning involves the adopting of new behavioural routines. Ways of responding to the world based on the context around us. Importantly, these kinds of learning are about prepar…
• [article] The 'truth' about social anxiety and just how debilitating it is — 15 Jul 2015
  <p>Anxiety is a normal healthy emotion. It’s thought to be a <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" class="external-link" href="http://www.academia.edu/1173312/Anxiety_An_Evolutionary_Approach">function of our survival</a> instinct. When we become anx…
• [article] Coming apart - the pattern of relationship breakdown — 8 Jul 2015
  Making and keeping our connections to others remains one of the fundamental arts we learn in life. And having a stickybeak into other people’s relationships is one of the fundamental past times. This isn’t always so gratifying though, because relationships don’t always work out. This is how that looks.
• [article] How your brain determines your religion (and other things) — 6 Jul 2015
  <h1 class="null">The <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/poverty-stops-performance-and-other-things">Weekly Dispatch</a></h1> We curate the best psychological dirt from all over the web each week so you don’t have to. Get a jumpstart on the week, over your cup of morning coffee or…
• [article] What drives our sexual preferences; babies or people? — 3 Jul 2015
  <p>Some psychologists are all about sex. One in particular is famous for his approach to figuring out what turns us on from an <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/psychological-theories">evolutionary perspective</a> (something we discuss in detail &lt;a href=“h…