@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYour name influences your career choices.
Research in the early 2000s suggested a correlation between initials and career choice, but this has been largely debunked as an artifact of confounders.
Pelham et al., 2002, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialSleeping on it improves your problem-solving abilities.
A 2004 study found that participants who slept were significantly more likely to gain insight into a hidden mathematical rule than those who remained awake.
Wagner et al., 2004, Nature
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou are more likely to trust a stranger if they share your birthday.
Pelham, Mirenberg, and Jones, 2002, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYour brain cannot process two independent tasks at once.
The psychological refractory period causes a delay in reaction to a second stimulus if it arrives during the processing of the first.
Pashler, 1994, Psychological Bulletin
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou lose cognitive precision when performing two tasks simultaneously.
Cognitive load theory shows that your working memory has a limited capacity for information processing.
Sweller, 1988, Cognitive Science
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou can be nudged by an irrelevant third option.
Consumers are more likely to pick a higher-priced item when a slightly worse version is presented as a decoy.
Huber, Payne, and Puto, 1982
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou react differently to the same information framed differently.
Tversky and Kahneman, 1981
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou assume you influence things that are purely random.
People are more confident in their ability to win a game of chance if they feel a sense of personal involvement.
Langer (1975)
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou value things more just because you helped build them.
The effort you invest in a project creates an irrational attachment to the final result.
Norton, Mochon, and Ariely, 2012, Journal of Consumer Psychology
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@pastortomsims.bsky.social@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou value an object more once it becomes yours.
The endowment effect shows that ownership increases your valuation of an item, even if you acquired it moments ago.
Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler, 1990, Journal of Political Economy
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou think the past forces a change in probability.
A 1971 study found that people expect a coin flip to balance out after a streak of heads, as if the coin has a memory.
Tversky and Kahneman, 1971
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou define your worth by measuring it against others.
A 1954 study proposed that in the absence of objective standards, humans evaluate their abilities through social comparison.
Festinger (1954), Social Comparison Theory
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou exert less effort when you work in a group.
The term 'social loafing' was coined and established by Latané, Williams, and Harkins in 1979.
Ingham et al. (1974)
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou unconsciously mimic the body language of others.
People consistently adopt the postures and mannerisms of their conversation partners, a process termed the chameleon effect.
Chartrand and Bargh, 1999, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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@oddlywireddaily.bsky.socialYou pay a steep cognitive price for multitasking.
Switching between tasks significantly increases error rates and lowers processing speed compared to focusing on one task at a time.
Rubinstein, Meyer, and Evans, 2001, Journal of Experimental Psychology
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