Interesting facts

I thought I should make this blog a bit more psychology oriented.
I don't know if I'll stick to it *knowing me, probably not* but well I'll at least try to write more 'philosophical staff' than anything else.

So here are some interesting facts from Psychology Today magazine:

Liars Avoid Eye Contact

Eye-contact avoidance is erroneously associated by the general public with deception.
Habitual liars actually make more eye contact than honest people. Why? Because they know that we look for this behaviour and they want to make sure that we are buying their lies.

Early birds beat night owls

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise?" Recent research has shown that night owls keep pace with early birds in attentional tasks soon after waking and outperform them as the day wears on - but only if they're following their natural sleep pattern. Try telling that to your boss.

Opposites attract

A persistent myth is that in romance, opposites attract. In fact, one of the most powerful predictors of liking is similarity, regardless of the type of trait -personality, values, interests, or physical characteristics.

Reading about attraction for uni was actually very interesting. There was an experiment conducted in a student village and researchers found out, that proximity was what attracted college students to each other (how close their rooms were) but as time passed similarity in interests, hobbies, attitudes was what kept them together (meaning that later on mostly those who had common interests stayed together).

Anyway, I found that quite interesting.

Fresh start...

I don't know why I decided to do this now...but I just did!
I now have a blog! Yay!
Today my brother gave me my gift for Easter. It's this book: Vampires: From Dracula to Twilight. The complete guide to vampire mythology. It looks interesting.
I hope I'll find some time to actually read it, soon.

Anyway, I think that's enough for the first entry. It feels weird to have a blog...
Let's see how it goes.

Good night world!