Behavioral Psychology

There are many different factors that go into being successful. A lot of people will say that you need to be intelligent, but what does intelligence really look like? How intelligent do you need to be to succeed as an entrepreneur? This article will discuss the different ways that success…

What if what you call food is actually poison? Would you still eat it? Hey storytellers. Have you ever tried to lose weight and got frustrated that you can’t? Or you can, only to gain it all back and then some? Well, there is a possible solution and I wouldn’t…

Over a hundred years ago John Stuart, the CEO of Quaker Oats, said: “If this business were to be split up, I would be glad to take the brands, trademarks and goodwill and you could have all the bricks and mortar — and I would fare better than you.” To…

Human beings are fundamentally irrational. No matter what Aristotle may tell you, the majority of our decisions are made quickly, heuristically, and without anything resembling a formal proof. Amazon is awash with books with initial chapters dedicated to that thesis. Their arguments vary widely, ranging from academic studies to florid…

Meet Jigyashu Shukla Jigyashu is a behavioral psychologist with an MBA in Human Resource Management Development Institute in Gurgaon, India. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Jigyashu is published in the Social Psychology and Justice and Frontiers of Psychology journals. …

This article is a modified transcript from my podcast series “get your shit together”. Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88DCKQnd_c Hi guys. Welcome back to the “get your shit together” series. Today I’d like to start the conversation about the topic of happiness. Now, happiness is a vastly complicated topic, but at the…

A regret aversive nature makes you hold on to your losses and sell profit-making assets. The disposition effect is our inclination to prematurely sell assets that have made financial gains while holding on to losing money assets. We seek to sell our winning investments to secure profit but are averse…

The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. This…