Let's learn about Psychology via these 348 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology.
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1. Understanding The Dunning-Kruger Effect
The Dunning–Kruger effect is the cognitive bias where people overestimate their ability or believe that they are smarter than they are.
2. There Is No Job Security in IT: Here Are My Three Suggestions to Cope With That
Today, I saw another wave of layoffs happening in the IT industry. In IT, there is no job security. Here are my three suggestions for coping with that.
3. What I Learned About Human Psychology From the CIA
What CIA figured out about human nature that we can apply to our everyday life. What motivates us, how most people function, how to get what we want and more.
4. Ads just work, no matter what you think.
We’re surrounded by advertising. Every single day, no matter where we are,<strong> </strong>thousands of auditive & visual stimuli are<strong> force-fed to our brains</strong>.
5. The Matthew Principle of Accumulated Advantage and How the Poor Get Poorer
The Matthew Effect or Matthew Principle of accumulated advantage, is sometimes summarized by the adage "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer".
6. How to Apply Psychology Of Colors In Marketing to Your Brand
This story is about how color is utilized in publicizing and marketing to summon enthusiastic responses. You can use this information to apply to your brand.
7. Cognitive Dissonance Theory and How it Impacts US
Cognitive dissonance is a psychology theory about how we strive to make sense about conflicting cognitions and behaviours.
8. What Personality Traits Lead to White Hat, Gray Hat and Black Hat Hackers? [STUDY]
Inside the mind of a hacker
9. The Art of Overthinking: Why You're a Genius at Creating Problems That Don't Exist
Thinking so much it’s holding you back? Uncover the hidden motives behind your mental chaos, Master the Mind Wizard's Stopwatch Formula, delve into the unexpect
10. Mind Control: How to Influence and Persuade
Do you ever wish you could get what you want? How to convince investors that you have the right business ideas? Trying to get people to come to your event or party, but no one is RSVP-ing? Or, do you wonder how to prevent yourself from getting scammed by salespeople?
11. Practical Exercises for Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
Overcome limiting beliefs by recontextualising them in your mind, writing down the old ones to create new ones and practising both meditation and embodiment
12. Don't Be Scared Of Indeterminacy
Hello, people! I'm an IT analyst from Russia, and I want to make the world around me better. Last time I worked for the biggest Russian energy company as a business analyst, and during my work, I noticed that it is unnecessary to be good at making the final result even if you are a really good professional in your field.
13. Lessons on Human Connection from the Hedgehog's Dilemma
The Hedgehog's Dilemma & Human Connection
14. Four Possible Ways to React to Other People's Happiness or Misery
Schadenfreude, Compassion, Envy and Mudita: explaining how we react to other people's fortunes or misery
15. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Human Beings
In a conversation with HackerNoon CEO, David Smooke, he identified artificial intelligence as an area of technology in which he anticipates vast growth. He pointed out, somewhat cheekily, that it seems like AI could be further along in figuring out how to alleviate some of our most basic electronic tasks—coordinating and scheduling meetings, for instance. This got me reflecting on the state of artificial intelligence. And mostly why my targeted ads suck so much...
16. Technology and the Mind: An Existential Psychotherapist’s Thoughts on the Meaning of Tech
<strong>A:</strong> Technology has two primary shortcomings. Both of them stem from the fact that technology facilitates contact with humans, but through a medium that underscores the individual and not the connection between them or the relational phenomena that occur between them.
17. The Mood of the Year: Languishing
Languishing is apathy, a sense of annoyance or feeling floating or an overall lack of interest in life or the things that typically bring you joy and happiness.
18. Do you still think your decision-making is rational?
[nope, no game theory fun-facts here]
19. "Emotions make your mind dumb and kill logic": A Blunt Perspective on How to Live
You only have one life, make it big!
20. Parasocial Relationships: A Pervasive Risk
Virtual relationships can be complicated, especially when they're not symmetrical and parasocial: "I know a lot about you, but you don't know me at all."
21. Hacking People’s Memories: The Mandela Effect
A look at how large groups of people remember things wrong, commonly known as the Mandela Effect
22. The Psychological Implications of Virtual Reality
Virtual reality, in its simplest form, is a mind game -- one that transports something from your imagination onto the screen in front of you.
23. Your Personality is a Lie
Your personality isn’t fixed. It’s a mask built from childhood survival rules, society’s expectations, and other people’s projections.
24. Dealing With Remote Loneliness
Remote work has many positives, but a there is a drawback that can creep in, the feeling of loneliness. This is a shared experience, you are not alone.
25. Dealing With Narcissists: How to S.L.A.Y. Any Dispute
Rebecca Zung | Negotiating with Narcissists: How to S.L.A.Y. Any Dispute
26. G.I. Joe Lied To Us—Knowing Is Not Half The Battle
For anyone who is a G.I. Joe fan, they would know this quote very well.
27. A Practical Guide to Understanding Systems
(Source)
28. The Cultish Side of Everyday Life: How Everyday Language and Behavior Mimic Cult Dynamics
Exploring the pervasive influence of cult-like dynamics in everyday life through language, psychology, and societal behaviors.
29. 7 Stages of Identity Development, According to a Cognitive Scientist
What are the 7 stages of identity development and why do most people get stuck at stage three? A cognitive scientist discusses each stage
30. Is AI Making People Delusional?
As AI use spreads, so does a new psychological phenomenon: AI-induced delusion. Here's a look at the darker impacts of AI chatbots.
31. The Vampire Survivors Effect: How Developers Utilize Gambling Psychology to Create Addictive Games
Learn how game developers use gambling psychology to create addictive games, including the Vampire Survivors, and the controversy surrounding its use.
32. The Development of AI: Balancing Convenience and Ethics
AI isn’t completely free from controversy.
33. The Magic of Feedback Loops: AI Takes Over
How did we let the algorithms take over our lives?
34. What is the Best Advice for First-Time Managers?
Learning to lead and manage teams are essential skills for anyone looking to advance their career.
35. 14 Crucial Behavioral Psychology Concepts for Product Managers
As a product manager, understanding the psychology of your target audience is crucial to creating a successful product.
36. How To Hack Your Brain To Get Motivated, Even When You’re Bored
On boredom, laziness, and snickers. On how to hack your brain, and how to deal with the mystery that is the bored, unproductive brain, with a well-tried method.
37. Building and Maintaining Healthy Relationships is Not an Exact Science
Having high standards in love is basically a form of self care and self respect
38. How Over-Reliance on AI Affects Children's Brain Structures
AI will change our kid's neural structures forever.
39. How Does Stockholm Syndrome Look in the Corporate World?
The Stockholm syndrome is an emotional response that happens to some abuse and hostage victims when they have positive feelings toward an abuser or captor.
40. Bring Back Emotion: Using Psychology for Trading, Investing and Risk
Denise Shull | Adding Emotion Back: How to Use Psychology for Trading, Investing and Risk
41. Your No Fluff, Research-Based Guide to Happiness From Yale
Discover the unexpected truth about happiness, debunking myths and revealing strategies for genuine well-being—a comprehensive guide to true contentment.
42. What is the True Nature of Reality?
Why I think the reality is not what it appears to be. We are consciousness most likely living in a simulation and our perceptions trick us
43. Understanding the Different Kinds of Founder Madness
The six Archetypes of Founder Madness: Imperial Individualist, Naively Confident, Strategic Contrarian, Frontier Explorer, Mad Scientist, and Global Catalyst.
44. Why is TikTok Obsessed With Tarot Card Readings?
First of all, Nostradamus has nothing to do with Tarot.
45. The Psychology of Color in Marketing
Understanding the psychology of color can help improve your branding and marketing.
46. Aspie Programmer: Embracing Neurodiversity and Unlocking Potential in the Tech Industry
In this piece, I dive deep into the complexities of Asperger's syndrome, discuss the pros and cons of having aspies on programming teams, and provide practic
47. Why 'Leave Your Comfort Zone' Is Really Bad Advice (And What To Do Instead)
Discover why 'leaving your comfort zone' is bad advice and learn actionable steps to gradually expand your comfort zone for lasting personal growth and success.
48. The Case For Work Being the Meaning of Life
“We are still waiting on a cure for death, but until then building products may be the next best thing.”
49. How to Start Applying Psychology in Product Design
The best designs exist to help users complete their tasks smoothly and efficiently, and they do so discreetly while remaining completely inconspicuous.
50. How to Think Like a Winner: Developing a Growth Mindset
People often perceive changes and challenges as threats. When a threat is present, a person’s ability to think, learn, adapt, and recover is limited.
51. Logic Vs. Emotion: What Really Drives Decision Making
How emotions, ego and aspirations influence technological choices. How to answer these psychological need with an objective method.
52. The Illusion of Logic: Navigating the Human Psyche with Rory Sutherland's Insights on Marketing
Explore the paradox of logic in human affairs with insights from Rory Sutherland's marketing wisdom.
53. Personal Development is a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
Two problems with self-development, the industry looking to profit from the naive and the ego, fooling itself it's getting enlightened.
54. 5 Strategies to Overcome Confirmation Bias in Your Personal Narratives
We gravitate towards people who are like us and will most likely believe what we believe. Doesn’t it feel good when others conform to our ideas? Who likes being told that they are not right or what they believe is far from reality?
55. Decipher Your Mind: Gamification, the Octalysis Framework, and the Psychology of Motivation
People do things for a reason. If we look deeper within ourselves and the world around us, we realize that we are all motivated by a myriad of drivers.
56. Psychology of the dWeb: Incentives to cooperate on the decentralized internet
Interest in the dWeb is blossoming, but decentralized systems require cooperation in order to work. If Richard Hendricks’ dream of the new internet is to come to fruition, it’s going to mean we’re relying on our friends, neighbors, and even strangers to provide us with information and connection to the outside world. It’s going to take communities of ultra-cooperation to work. But can we rely on networks of people (some or all of whom are self-interested) to deliver? Call me the optimist, but I think humans actually have the necessary "stuff" to make it work well. Here, I lay out some of our evolved moral fabric, and how that moral fabric can be tailored to socially scale the decentralized web.
57. Behavioral Psychology Hacks for Product Managers
58. Exploring The Spotlight Effect and Its Role in Social Anxiety
The spotlight effect is the phenomenon in which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are.
59. Did You Know Developer Hunting is a Thing?
Demand for developers leveled off, but it didn’t dip.
60. How Should We Re-Evaluate Our Models of the World?
On the internet, "public goods" take center stage.
61. 5 Most Persuasive Words in the English Language: What They Are and How to Use Them
It's fascinating to see how psychology comes into play in copywriting and content marketing. You just read the phrase "most persuasive words in the English language" and it rang a bell.
62. This CFO Wrecked His Mercedes Trying to Kill the CEO & 3 Other Entrepreneurial War Stories
The word insane is drastically overused for everything from mild moodiness and irritability to emotional changes. That's not what this article is about...
63. The Organization of Conscious States
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, by Henri Bergson, is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
64. The Multiplicity of Conscious States
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, by Henri Bergson, is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
65. Nathan Baugh: 10 Psychology Tricks to Improve Your Storytelling Ability
Nathan Baugh goes over 10 Psychology tricks to improve your storytelling ability.
66. A Key to Success: Defeat Drifting
Napoleon Hill was onto something with his insights on purpose, mindset, and mastering habits.
67. Why Burnout Syndrome Is More Common Among Software Developers
Indicators for burnout risk of software developers can be measured at an early stage with analytical software-based methods and allow for timely countermeasures
68. How the Japanese Concept Wabi-Sabi can Shape Our Worldview
Wabi-sabi teaches that it takes a conscious effort to slow down and cultivate our minds to cherish the beauty of old, weathered, incomplete or unfinished.
69. Why Dumb People Outsmart You and Steal Your Success
Smart people overthink. Dumb people act. The world rewards motion, not IQ. Learn why ignorance often beats intelligence, and how to flip it.
70. How to be Bored (the Right Way)
Boredom is one of the biggest problems of modernity. Or is it?
71. The Intensity of Psychic States
States of consciousness, sensations, feelings, passions, efforts, are capable of growth and diminution. This can cause the intensity to vary greatly.
72. How to Improve Your Well-Being With Tech and Good Air Composition
How does air composition influence cognitive performance?
73. Thinking of Humans as a Computer Program
74. Levelling Up Your Conversion Metrics Via Behavioural Psychology
You got a perfect product, been used by about a million of users, so does it mean your product is successful? Well, if you think right now it’s on the path of success, but it might just take a small turn to go down the road to failure. Product just can’t be successful and keep its game up for a longer run unless it exploit the behavioural domain of its users.
75. The AI Who Was Not a God
The AI, as a fu dog avatar, wonders what it would be like to have a million eyes. Artwork and background image of Mỹ Sơn by Ted Wade.
76. If You Want to Learn Better, Put Down the Tutorial, and Start Practicing
Going from tutorial to tutorial to achieve this imaginary 100% knowledge of a topic is very detrimental.
77. How To Win Friends and Influence People (My Version)
Connect authentically with others, build trust, and enhance likeability in social interactions with practical tips.
78. Manipulation and Persuasion: 14 Tactics People Use to Shape Your Beliefs
Explore the nuances of communication and manipulation tactics. Learn to discern influence from deceit in a saturated information era.
79. 5 Strategies for Shifting a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset
How do you approach failures in life?
80. Should You Ever Build a Startup with a Friend?
81. The Psychological Benefits of Playing VR Games
With three billion gamers worldwide, many people ask, “Is gaming a waste of my time?”
82. How You May be Avoiding Unpleasant Information With the Ostrich Effect
Ostriches bury their heads in the sand when they sense danger, assuming that the danger will pass if they just avoid it long enough.
83. How to Mentally Prepare Yourself for Executing a Plan
In reality, as projects are executed, new information can challenge the objective. These are situations that can make one happy or frustrated.
84. Building a Strong Portfolio in the Early Stages of a Startup: Tips and Strategies
A startup team may fail to deliver a product but should not fail to deliver a portfolio of value.
85. Psycho-Coding: The No BS Effects of Coding on My Brain
The Effects of programming on your brain and mental state
86. Remote Work's Hierarchy of Needs
87. The Irony of Pluralistic Ignorance: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
Pluralistic ignorance is a psychological state in which we believe that our private thoughts, and feelings, are different from those of others.
88. Crypto Whales are Laying the Groundwork for the Next Bull Run
The psychology driving the market isn’t random; it’s a game of human nature, and the winners know how to play it.
89. Change Your Personality Type With This Simple Hack!
Do you feel deeply related to your personality type test result? Let's find out how reliable it is.
90. How Much Money is Enough Money?🥲
This Slogging thread by Manas Goel, Valentine Enedah, GemInRubbles, Mónica Freitas and Sara Pinto occurred in slogging's official #random channel, and has been edited for readability.
91. Interoception: The Sense Behind Wellbeing
we are not brains that have an attached body. We are bodies.
92. Great Expectations: Chapter II
My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbours...
93. How To Stay Human in the Digital Era: A Series of Fortunate Tips for Shaping the Next Generation
World Wide Webers, it’s 2019 and the talk of town are topics that so many of us interact with every day: conversational marketing, behavioural science, machine learning, process automation, productivity tools, chatbots, algorithms, artificial intelligence, big data, deep learning, accelerating digital transformation, and so much more.
94. Cutting Through the Bullshit: Embracing a Meaningful Life
I reflect on the shortness of life and that it's short and that spending time on bullshit like toxic interactions and wasting time is no longer working for me
95. Get Rid of Your Imposter Syndrome!
Get rid of Imposter Symdrome with those 3 tips from my personal experience.
96. Thinking Like Elon Musk Means Thinking Bigger Than Big: Huge
In simple language, First Principles Thinking involves actively questioning every assumption you believe.
97. Only 3% of the World Has Figured Out Their Reason for Being
Matt Schnuck explains why only 3% of the world has figured out their reason for being.
98. How to Become a Quality Assurance Engineer
A Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer is a professional who tests software during the entire development process.
99. The Significance of the Father in the Destiny of the Individual
To this youth the father wanted to marry his favourite daughter.
100. Why We Spend So Much Time at Work on Things that Don't Matter
We focus on trivia at the expense of more important issues. Why does this happen and what we can do about it?
101. SYMBOLISM OF THE MOTHER AND OF REBIRTH
“I am the creator of Nun, who has taken his place in the underworld. My nest is not seen and my egg is not broken.”
102. SOME TYPES OF GEOMETRICAL ILLUSIONS
The presentation which follows begins (for the sake of clearness) with a few representative geometrical illusions of various types.
103. A few thoughts from my experience as reader and writer using Medium’s new clap feature the past few…
A few thoughts from my experience as reader and writer using <a href="https://medium.com/@Medium" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="504c7870fdb6" data-action-value="504c7870fdb6" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Medium</a>’s new clap feature the past few weeks:
104. How to Biohack Properly
Being deficient in any one mineral or nutrient can cause a plethora of physical and mental ailments. This article will teach you how to biohack your life.
105. Why Would Anything Ever Go Right?
Projects can fail because of multipolar traps (a value sacrifice game) and surrogation traps, where means substitute...
