Nobody Likes Losing: Loss Aversion Explained

Nobody Likes Losing: Loss Aversion Explained

Nobody likes change. This is a fundamental aspect of life that everyone can relate to. When things are shifted from something we're very familiar with to something we're not familiar with, we become uncomfortable. I go more in depth into this a little in a previous post about Nostalgia as well as my post about Stubbornness. Today I'm going to talk about how we hate to

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Why Do We Do Anything? Operant Conditioning Explained

Why Do We Do Anything? Operant Conditioning Explained

Why do we do what we do? It's really easy and simple, and in fact human behavior is extremely predictable. Have you ever heard of Operant Conditioning? Probably in some Psych class you had to take to graduate or casually at a bar out with friends (if your friends are nerds like myself). Why do we eat pizza or watch Netflix or procrastinate? Well the super simple answ

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Has Technology Killed Love?

Has Technology Killed Love?

The internet has become one of the biggest parts of our lives today. It's so ingrained in our culture and daily routines that we have access to it all day and every day in the form of our phones, our computers, even our TVs. We have the internet when we're at work, at school, hotels, our homes, on planes, buses, and even at restaurants. The internet is so ever present that we

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Music and Attention

Music and Attention

Music is such a powerful tool and can be a catalyst for anything you can imagine. It can inspire, heal, and transport you to a totally different time and place. Certain songs can make you feel certain things, similar things even to the person who was writing it, or the person who showed it to you. Music is a beautiful way we can communicate with one another our most

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