Use psychology to spot a liar!

How To Spot A Liar by Forensic Psychology

A study of forensic psychology teaches to learn ho to spot a liar, this is a cool infographic in psychology area that shows statistics about lying, a several situations and how liars would react, the important role of body language, microexpressions and other kind of important and cool things you can easily lear to use psychology in your favour!

Just scroll the infographic below.

Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology ('cause everyone needs a little positivism in their lifes)

Study in Psyshology: Catching Criminals by Smell

The University of Aveiro, in Portugal, is developing a studying about the impact of olfaction in forensic investigations. 

Imagine that you could identify criminals using only your sense of smell. Fantasy? No, currently this is an idea that has been taking shape and could become a turning point in criminal investigations.

This research was born in the center of PsyLab, at the University of Aveiro, and wanted to combine two principles: Fear and Smell, trying to create a possible application in forensic context. 

The process had two distinct phases: Initially tests were made for the body odor that had the participation of many volunteer. After this, tests the samples are frozen in the laboratory of Psychology and only thawed when the second phase begin. In this secon phase, the 80 volunteers are split into two groups that will view neutral films or crime films, with a duration of one minute each. At the end of this  process are presented to volunteers 5 vials with different smells and asked them to identify the smells associated with the crimes. 

The project is still fresh and with a long way ahead, although it promises to revolutionize the forensic context.

  

The psychology of Angry Birds

Everyone know that the game Angry Birds become a phenomenon over the past year. There's even people who called it "Angry Birds Addiction Syndrome", what most of people doesn't know is the mecanisms behind this game and what really triggers this addiction.

 A study by  AYTM investigated the psychological and sociological motives behing Angry Bird, and showed us you the users mood changes while they are playing.  

Here's the result of this study:

Large infographic here.

You can find all the reporst of AYTM study here.

Facebook, the new personality test

Facebook it's one of the most powerful social network of today, and if you take that to area of psychology  you will see that you can take several aspects into analysis.

For instance, all users can choose the information they want to reveal, the photos that they want all other friends connected to them to see, and so on. 

Based on this factors, one study discovered that Facebook profiles are really good at conveying your real personality.

In the study, taken by University of Maryland, researchers looked at the online profiles of around 236 U.S. college-aged individuals.

The participants also filled out questionnaires designed to measure personality traits including extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. Observers then rated the personalities of the participants based on the online profiles, and these observations were compared to the results of the personality questionnaires. The researchers found that observers were able to get an accurate read on a person's personality based on their Facebook profile.

Beyond this study, all over the world, began to appear several cases that have been reported on social media, such as employers using the public Facebook profil of the candidates to the job profile to evaluate their personality, as a common personality test.

This may sound awkard or even a invasion of privacy, but you must start to be careful with what you post online, because this type of customs are being increasingly used. 

So, before posting anything or upload any photo, think twice.

In conclusion, take a look at this infographic to fully understand the impact of facebook as a social network.

The Psychology Of Color

Psychology is present in every aspect of everyone life's. 

Here's a cool infographic that show the psychology of color:

This infographic were designed by NowSourcing.com, and it's pretty cool since it give you a lot of visual examples to help you understand their observations about diferent colors, and it's relation with human psychology.

The objective is to show how color evokes emotion and triggers everyone sense, showing that color are much more then only decorative things.

This is also a beautiful way to send a message to all users, pretty cool, don't you think?

Ivan Pavlov and his dogs

Ivan Petroitch Pavlov was born in Ryazan, in Russia in the year of 1849. His father was a village priest and his mother was a physiologist.

After a brilliant academic path in the area of Natural Sciences and Phyiology, in 1878 was admitted to the Academy of Medical Surgery.  After that we won a fellowship at the Academy were we developed his thesis on the subject of "The centrifugal nerves of the heart".

Ten year later, Pavlov started the studies about digestion and the gastric function, first on dogs and later on children. This study was centered on the externalizing of the salivary gland to collecting, measure and analyse of the saliva and what response it had to food, under a several distinct conditions.

The reflex system of Pavlov, known as "Conditioned Reflex" was a big stemp in the areas of physiology and neurological science, since it showed that all temperaments types responde to a stimuli the same way. This is a psychology theory that is still teached nowadays in school.

Here's how Pavlov Theory works: