49 Random Psychology Facts

1. Based on the total number of people tested since IQ tests were devised, women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
2. Your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams. 
3. All the faces in your dream are of people you have saw throughout your life. 
4. If a guy stands with his legs apart while with a girl means he likes her. 
5. Chocolate and shopping are both more addictive than LSD or steroids. 
6. Children who are breast fed display IQ’s up to 10 points higher by the age of three. 
7. There is no such thing as multitasking. 
8. You can only remember 3 to 4 things at a time. 
9. Blue and red together is hard on your eyes. 
10. There’s a disorder where you swear your mother is an impostor of your mother. 
11. You make most of your decisions unconsciously. 
12. If you cry for more than 12 minutes, it’s self-inflicted. 
13. You reconstruct your memories. 
14. You are most affected by brands and logos when you are sad or scared. 
15. Men, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds. 
16. You can only feel romantic love for about a year, after that it’s attachment love. 
17. Women are better than men at remembering faces, especially of females. 
18. Eating chocolate makes you happy because it contains phenylephylamine - the same hormone the brain triggers when you fall in love. 
19. When a person permanently loses their sense of smell, they can develop depression. 
20. Having your shoulders upwards and not forwards means that you’re confident. 
21. A typical right-handed person tends to look towards their left when remembering something that actually happened (images, sounds and internal dialogue) and towards their right or downwards when they’re making something up. 
22. You are most attracted to people who have similar facial features as yourself. 
23. When a person talks fast, it usually means they have a confidence issue. 
24. If you smile, even if you’re in a bad mood, it will immediately improve your mood, because the simple action of thinking about smiling and using the muscles is enough to trigger happy chemicals in the brain. 
25. Women are more attracted to guys that resemble their dads and same for guys with their moms. 
26. You are 12% more likely to be in a good mood if your friends around you are in a good mood, and 8% more if they’re not even in the same region. You’re 6% more likely to be in a good mood if your friends’ friends are in a good mood. You’re only 2% more likely to be happier, in the long run, if you win the lottery. 
27. The memory is the first part of the mind to begin get worse as you age. 
28. A human is sexually active all its life from the very beginning. 
29. Monkeys see showing teeth as a sign of aggression. ( so don’t smile in front of them :p ) 
30. Even though most of the time you don’t understand your dreams, they’re the reflection of your deepest desires and fears. 
31. When a person cries and the first drop comes from the right eye, it’s happiness. But when the first roll is from the left, it’s pain. 
32. Men change their minds two to three times more often than women. 
33. Women are more fearful and anxious than men. 
34. Hard rock music played to colonies of termites cause the insects to enter a kind of frenzy and to chew through wood at twice their normal rate. 
35. 27 % of cards contain just the sender’s signature without a personal message. 
36. We are the only organism that can turn to cannibalism on itself. 
37. If you tear the paper off your drink bottles, you’re sexually frustrated. 
38. People tend to alter their behavior towards others when mirrors are around. 
39. We have pretty much as many neurons in our heads as there are stars in the sky. 
40. If you eat in your room you become selfish. 
41. 3 feet around you is personal space so if someone you hate comes in it then you will get disturbed. 
42. If you’re curious about whether someone likes you, and are afraid to ask, you can tell by the expression on their friends faces as the one you like is being poker faced. 
43. Women who wear bright red and vibrant lipstick , are often very sexually active or would like to be. 
44. Cutting or other forms of self harm gives a sense of relief and proves they are real people. The pain is irrelevant. 
45. Cops watch red and black sports cars more than any other color. 
46. When people lie, they tend to discretely cover their mouth or nose. 
47. People tend to use their hands to show how important a subject matter is to them. 
48. Blind people dream, but not if they were born blind. 
49. Members of the opposite sex that smell better to you, you have more genetic compatibility with.