How facts backfire
It is a widespread believe, but facts actually do not always inform opinions and decisions. Researchers already found this ten years ago
see this article
Archived entries for Humanity
What people want
Milton Rokeach did very interesting research on what people want in the 60’s and 70’s. How made an interesting list which can be really useful to understand values of different people
Absurd human bodies
Some humans are born with a different DNA set and therefore can do things we can’t do. For example
different sleeping cycles
Almost everybody has a monophasic sleep cycle, sleeping only once every 24 hours. But there are several alternatives. And they save a lot of time.
This site shows four of them
ask yourself 3 times why
Ricardo Semler has set up self organizing companies with almost no rules that flourish.
If you want to know why? Watch this ted talk
human diversity
”reading two peages at once and remembering all” ” playing tchaikovsky after hearing it once” ”invented a new city with complete signed details from the mind”
These are all descriptions of the extra-ordinary human beings titled als ‘savants’ that have unique skills
here is a short list of them
What emotions are
We found an interesting internet page about emotions, how we can rank them, their ambiguity and misunderstanding.
Do you want to find out which strategies you can use to deal with emotions? Yes? Follow the link:
irrationality of human behavior
Although we think we are rational, in this ted talk from Dan Ariely is shown that we are not always in control of our decisions.
Take a look at this very inspiring and counter intuitive examples
update: extending your senses
update: an extra artical about seeing as a blind man with echolocation
and documentary
‘Extend you senses by uses technology as a part of your body’
An interesting ted talk by Neil Harbisson how you can use your senses in a new way, probably something for the (near) future
Even more interesting and funny is this ted talk on what you can’t sense
how to communicate
Marshall Rosenberg developed and interesting model for communication usefull for everyone, especially in case of conflict
The four basic components are: observations, feelings, needs and request. If you are interesting in the model, follow the link
developing the theory of suicide
Although the topic and it’s personal story are not an easy read, the story provides important insights into theory construction which is worth your attention
when emotion meets economics
Do you want to know how your brain decides under stress? In some situations we do not act rational as is often assumed by economists, by bridging economics and psychology this has led to the following knowledge on how you will react in stressfull situations
the scientific paper of Loewenstein, Rick and Cohen
shorter description can be found here
and are we in control of our own decisions? see the ted talk
how to cheat
Two researchers made a very interesting test letting students cheat on purpose. This resulted in a very diverse set of cheating methods which can be combined in the resulting security principles or strategies to cheat: exploit the environment, exploit trust, exploit personal skillsets, exploit the human and develop back up plans.
It is inspiring to see the creativity students apply when do are allowed to cheat
and the anti-dote to cheating is very shortly explained in this video
creating genius
Do you want to know how you can become a genius? You can find the answer in this manual
To prove that this method works, here is a story about a girl that became a grandmaster in chess
To know more about the origins of this method follow link 1 and link 2
why do we lie?
”One percent of people will always be honest and never steal. Another 1% will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television; locks won’t do much to protect you from the hardened thieves, who can get into your house if they really want to. The purpose of locks, the locksmith said, is to protect you from the 98% of mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock.”
To know more about this story and why we lie and when; The online article.
The authors state that the potential money gain and probability of being caught do not influence if we lie or not! That is counter intuitive
how to buy your way to happiness
The title ‘If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right‘ explains it all
see the paper for spending principles
exploring intuition
If you often follow your intuition or you want to do that more and understand how intuition works and want to improve that, see this link
enjoy reading!!
why do some people learn faster?
You can find the answer here
update: different kinds of intelligence
Not only intellectual intelligence is necessary to succeed, also emotional (more in depth?), moral and body intelligence are important. To know more see:
Update: We have found a more elaborate view on intelligence
admitting failure
In our global culture it is still one of the harder things to do without feeling embarrased, knowing and admitting you were wrong. Indirect it confirms you are not perfect, which could be a confronting truth. In the talk it is shown that we need to open up about failure to make progress, if we don’t, much of our work could be worthless as David Damberger shows with NGO aid to Africa
the new hierarchy of human needs (II)
Since last post in May, technology developments have continued and changing our basic needs. In the link below you can find a funny/ interesting interpretation of maslow’s old hierachy of needs adapted for our modern lifestyle
what? positive psychology!
Happiness gets a different perspective after seeing this video. Martin Seligman explains development of psychology into a positive research field. And being happy not means you always have only pleasure. He can explain it better than us, so to know more follow :
the hierarchy of human needs
One of the basic pilars of modern psychology is based on maslow’s theory of needs. It gives a very interesting look in what we as human need. If you still miss something in your live, check if you have all levels in the hierarchy covered
understanding human psychology
With over 5500 citations, this paper is definitely worth reading and it will provide you with some insides in human psychology.
‘ajzen, the theory of planned behavior’
your new skill; implicit learning
Learning faster by combining implicit and explicit learning would be a nice skill to …. learn. This research gives more insight into the many different ways we as human can learn. And learning we like at inscipa
something about alcohol consumption
Some people drink and some people don’t. And some people drink more than others
Here a view in the scientific kitchen of a topic that influences our daily or weekly live. I think even that after water and tea, it is the most consumed liquid on the world!
‘reduction of blood alcohol concentration limit in Norway- effects on knowledge, behavior and accidents’ by Terje Assum
how do prolunged weakfulness and alcohol compare in the decrements they produce on a simulated driving task?
realizing your planned activities
Everyone makes new plans. Sometimes those plans will never be realized because they are too abstract.
In this interesting research we can find out why some things do and some things do not work even though we want it to happen. ‘construal level and procrastination by McCrea’
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02240.x
and the following link for the easier news article
talent management and inscipa
Talent needs to evolve and be stimulated by it’s surrounding. Talent evolves when it is sparkled by following its interests. With inscipa we hope to provide you new ideas so that you can follow and find your interests and develop your own talent. So manage your talents and start reading