Technical insights and deep-dives in Mind & Psychology.
In an experiment, a stranger asks for directions. Workers carry a door between them, and the stranger is swapped with a different person. 50% of people don't notice.
We tend to overestimate how much other people share our beliefs and behaviors. We assume we are 'normal', so others must be like us.
Our brains evolved to survive on the African Savanna 10,000 years ago. They are not adapted for smartphones, unlimited sugar, or office jobs.
The situation isn't bad, your thoughts are. Concrete techniques to identify and correct "cognitive distortions" that create depression and anxiety.
Why do I hate that person specifically? "What I hate in you is actually my shadow," explained through Carl Jung's theory.
Unexplained chronic pain and tension, could it be suppressed emotions? The limitations of talk therapy and healing through the body.