What’s something about human behaviour that made a lot more sense once you learned the psychology behind it?
been down a psych rabbit hole from just scrolling random stuff lately and it’s messing with how i see people, myself included
biggest one: procrastination isn’t really laziness. i’ll leave a text or email unanswered for days, not bc it’s hard to reply, just something about it makes me avoid it and i can’t even explain why. “just do it” never worked bc it doesn’t touch that
also annoyingly — knowing about a bias doesn’t stop you from falling for it. i KNOW what social proof is and i still catch myself doing stuff just bc everyone around me is doing it, like i’ll notice mid-decision and go “wait why am i actually doing this.” knowing didn’t stop it from happening first
anyone else have a random psych fact just recontextualize a bunch of behaviour at once? doesn’t need to be some big study, even a small thing works