Some good facts about psychology

1. Shy people talk less about themselves, but do so in a way that makes others feel like they know them well.

2. 98% of the times someone says they want to ask you a question, you remember all the bad things you did lately.

3. Text messages such as good morning and good evening activate the part of the brain responsible for happiness.

4. Writing notes by hand, rather than typing, helps you learn what you notice, because handwriting engages a different part of the brain than machine writing.

5. Thinking in a foreign language helps separate your feelings from your thoughts, which helps you focus on making more rational decisions.

6. When you fly in your dreams, psychology says that you have a desire to express creativity and change your normal life.

7. Any friendship born between 16 and 28 years old is likely to be strong and long lasting.

8. People who have a strong sense of guilt are better at understanding other people's thoughts and feelings.

9. Playing with blocks helps young children learn, as they teach spatial concepts as well as physics.

10. A study found that playing video games can have some positive effects on children, too. Video games give children the opportunity to unleash their negative emotions, and also to confront and overcome fearful things.

11. You might think it's the other way around, but publicizing your goals to others actually discourages you and makes you less likely to achieve your goal.

12. Having Plan B means that Plan A is unlikely to work.

13. Playing chess makes you smarter - it slows you down and forces you to focus. Chess also depends on players to think about things from different angles - they must use deductive and inductive reasoning.

14. Listening to high frequency music makes you feel calm, relaxed and happy.

15. When lovers look into each other's eyes, their heartbeats synchronize.

16. Our emotions do not affect the way we communicate, in fact, the opposite is true: the way we communicate influences our emotions.

17. Clemonia: The excessive desire to stay in bed all day.

18. 70% enjoy old songs because of the memories they associate with them.

19. Women with higher IQs have a harder time finding a mate. They would rather stay single than be with the wrong person.

20. Allowing yourself to experience the negative feelings of an event in your life may actually help you get over it faster.