There's a big difference between mind reading & mentalism effects compared with plain old magic tricks. One of the biggest differences is that mind reading relies on the audience needing to really believe in you. With magic you can get away without giving them an explanation because at the end of the day 'it's just magic'. With mind reading and mentalism, the audience needs to buy into your special abilities, whether they are psychic or uncanny psychological manipulation.

This...

The Wason Card Selection Task

Can you solve this logical problem?

Make a mental note of your answer. The correct answer is given below.

Intelligence & Cognitive Biases

"A global concept that involves an individual's ability to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal effectively with the environment." D. Wechsler

Our ability to...

Hi Folks! Being an etiquette and proffessional only counts upon your dress which you wear. Dress makes you a person of a selected calibre. Dress plays a very important role in displaying your image, background and social status.

Dr Thomas Lee concluded from the research that people want their doctor to look like a doctor. He maintains that people prefer a doctor who looks like he deserves their respect, may be even their reverence. If you are a physician, the study suggests...

Dr. Hasan A. Yahya, a professor of philosophy

Human personality differs according to the personal qualities.  A pre-Christ birth fable says: A stingy merchant, to make sure of his property and wealth , sold all that he had and converted it into a great lump of gold, which he hid in a hole in the room floor. He was looking everyday at the gold in order to be sure, of security. One day, a neighbor discovered the secret of the gold. He was thinking that there should be a...

Professor Bonja Lyubomisky's " Is It Possible to Become Lastingly Happier? : The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness" (Psychologytoday.com, Apr. 27, 1008) is a very good article. It explains how to be happy specifically and clearly.

However, as a layman in psychology, I would like to write a shorter one by means of our everyday common sense. Let's hope it will be easy to understand and simple to remember:

Goal of Life

Obviously, the goal of human life is to...

We all want to have a sense of psychological well-being, that is, we want to be happy.

So what do we do to gain happiness? We work harder. We buy lottery tickets. We invest. We do anything we can to improve our economic well-being, because we believe it translates directly into happiness. Furthermore, we do this as individuals and as a society.

Over the past half-century developed countries have made gigantic economic gains, based at least in part on the premise that...

Many professionals in the medical field have been led to believe that direct reinforcement is the main method of learning. Thanks tothe work of Albert Bandurawe now know this is not true. Humans learn behavior through a variety of methods, including direct observation of the behavior of other humans. He found that this is an effective way to learn new information. This phenomenon, known as modeling or observational learning, can explain many of the behaviors exhibited by...

Gretchen Rubin's " The Happiness Project " (washingtonpost.com, Feb. 7, 2010) is a best-selling book No.1 in New York Times. It explains how to be happy with a year long project specifically and clearly.

However, as a layman in this field, I would like to suggest an easy way to happiness, which everybody can derive from our very common sense and instincts if he or she likes to spare some time to think it over.

As it is derived from our own instincts, it is easy to...

Success is in the blood. There are men whom fate can never keep down they march forward in a jaunty manner, and take by divine right the best of everything that the earth affords. But their success is not attained by means of the Samuel Smiles-Connecticut policy. They do not lie in wait, nor scheme, nor fawn, nor seek to adapt their sails to catch the breeze of popular favor. Still, they are ever alert and alive to any good that may come their way, and when it comes they simply...

Understanding the emotions of your child is extremely important as you are one of the most important people in his life.

When he is about three years old, these emotions begin to really come into focus and he becomes aware of feelings of sadness, joy, love, fear, disappointment, anger, happiness, caring and hatred.

Babies have emotions as well but they are mainly elementary emotions such as pleasure, fear, pain, discomfort and basically anything else that relates...