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• [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 Weekly Dispatch</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 on the way to work with The Weekly Dispatch. &lt;h3 class=“n…
• [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 evolutionary perspective (something we discuss in detail <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/sexual-strategies-evolution">here</a>)…
• [article] Are you brave enough to be creative? — 1 Jul 2015
  <p>Into yoga? Because I’m about to talk about yoga that’ll work your creative flexibility (and by the time I’m finished, you might be into actual yoga too). You might have noticed that the more creative people are often more noticeably different. You migh…
• [article] Why you can't get rid of the rubbish in your garage — 26 Jun 2015
  <p>Have you got a bunch of crap in your wardrobe gathering dust? I have. In fact, in almost every storage space I have, I could list at least one or two things that haven’t been used for months. Very occasionally, this stuff is important. I mean, I don’t …
• [article] The 'truth' about panic attacks (and why everyone is vulnerable) — 24 Jun 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>. When we become anxious, our…
• [article] Broken Brains - the terrifying things everyone is capable of doing (Part 4) — 19 Jun 2015
  <p>Imagine one of the most complicated Lego contraptions you ever built without using the instructions. Did you ever run out of the pieces you needed to finish it? Maybe substituted two little, different coloured blocks for one long one? It wasn’t perfect…
• [article] How some 'psychics' use psychology to screw you — 17 Jun 2015
  Let’s cut to the chase. Most psychics are crooks. Most horoscopes are fluff. Most ‘clairvoyants’ are cheats. Whatever truth there is to be known is obscured by legions of charlatans and the Forer effect is one reason why.
• [article] How poverty stops you thinking straight (and other things) — 15 Jun 2015
  <h1 class="null">The Weekly Dispatch</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 on the way to work with The Weekly Dispatch. <h3>&lt;a href=…