Psychology - Abhishek Chakraborty (Page 3)

How to Ward Off Negative Thoughts Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Your brain is good at making you feel exactly what you’re thinking. We have automatic negative thoughts that lead us to get upset or frustrated over things that may not be true. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can help you get rid of irrational thought, and improve your mental health.

The Tyranny of Small Decisions: How Little Actions Turn Into Big Mishaps

Before it was a park, Boston Commons was a grazing pasture for cows. Local families used it collectively. Then a problem arose. Each additional cow that a farmer got benefited their family, but when all the farmers kept getting new cows, the commons started getting depleted.

Self-Perception Theory: What You Do Affects What Attitudes You Build

Self-Perception Theory asserts that people develop their attitudes by observing their own behaviour and concluding what attitudes must have caused it, especially when there is no previous attitude due to a lack of experience, and the emotional response is ambiguous.

The Benjamin Franklin Effect: Why It’s Better to Ask For a Favour Than Do One

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. The better way to build rapport is to ask for a favour rather than doing one.

Imposter Syndrome: What Made Maya Angelou Feel Like a Fraud

Do you feel like a ‘fraud’? Do you feel that you would be exposed soon? Do you feel that you simply inherited your qualities and accomplishments, and got everything easy by just being lucky —that you might not really deserve the success you enjoy right now?

You Don’t Understand Probability

Let’s say you are considering putting money into a bet of $1,000. It’s a coin toss. The expected outcome of the bet, i.e., the probabilities of each payoff multiplied by the dollar values at stake is $1,000 (i.e., 50% x $0 + 50% x $2,000). Can you visualise owning $1,000?

We Don’t Learn From Others Mistakes Unless We Repeat Them

As an adult, you are extremely lax in the area of detection and prevention. You smoke, even though in all probability, it’s highly likely to give you cancer. Every other person in your family is either obese or diabetic, yet you can’t help give up desserts after a meal.

Thinking, Fast and Slow: How Our Brain Makes Decisions

Thinking, Fast and Slow is a brilliant model that explains the machinery of thought. It helps you understand why people make irrational decisions, and why often your gut feelings and intuitions are wrong.