What is color? Have you ever stopped to think how important colors are in our lives? Psychology has always been interested in how colors stimulate us. Colors have a ways of eliciting a psychological or physiological reaction from us. Every color has a different meaning and interaction with each of us....

Are you superstitious? If you break a mirror, will it bring you seven years of bad luck? Do you rub a gold wedding band to cure a sty? We are always thinking that we have absolute control over the physical world. Most times, we try to make sense of what happens around us and attempt to predict it. Like...

Have you ever been in a conversation and wonder if the person you are talking to is lying? Wouldn’t you love to know for sure if a person is lying? Psychology has spent decades studying this topic. There are numerous channels of communication between us, verbal and nonverbal. Nonverbal communication...

Have you ever been in a boring meeting and start drawing on the margins of your notepad? What about in a class or while talking on the phone? We all do it, but do we know why? Do they mean something? WHAT IS IT? Doodling is an absent minded scribble or marks without aim, purpose or thought. Some definitions...

Have you ever felt anxious prior to a job interview? What about going on a date, do you get a little nervous? Most of the time we hear that anxiety is a bad thing, but do you know that it is also a good thing? Anxiety, just like depression are natural emotional experiences that everyone goes through...

I have always been fascinated by the story of Kitty Genovese. Her story takes place in New York. Kitty was a 28-year old female from an Italian-American family. She was a bar manager at a small neighborhood in Queens. Most nights she worked late. On the frigid morning of March 13, 1964 around 3:15 a.m.,...

Have you ever been at a stop light and noticed the cars beside you inching closer to the intersection even though the traffic light is red? Why do they keep moving? They cannot go anywhere. Yet, they still inch bit by bit into the intersection. The funny thing is that the people behind them or beside...

Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. Sigmund Freud considered Jung his successor in the advancement in psychoanalysis. Freud and Jung parted ways over different philosophies. Nevertheless, Jung’s contributions to psychology included the concept...

Do you remember your second birthday or your first day of pre-school? Most of us would answer “no” to these questions. As adults, we can remember many events from middle childhood, around age 5, to the present day. Why can’t we remember earlier times?The inability to recall events before...

How many times have you been driving and you do not know how you got from one point to another? Usually, you start thinking about something and next thing you know, you are at your destination. Some people call it “dozing off”, “spacing out” or “daydreaming”. In psychology,...