Ten Psychology Studies from 2009 Worth Knowing About

buggernot · January 11, 2010

http://trueslant.com/daviddisalvo/2009/12/28/ten-psychology-studies-from-2009-worth-knowing-about/

Summary of each, more extensive writeups and links to studies in the article.

1. If you have to choose between buying something or spending the money on a memorable experience, go with the experience.

2. First impressions are all about value.

3. The ?money illusion??the tendency to allow the nominal value of money (amount of currency) to interfere with the real value (value of goods the money can buy)?is all in your head.

4. Playing video games could be an unlikely cure for psychological trauma.

5. All of us spend time riding the moral self-regulation see saw.

6. If you?re preparing for a specific challenge, make sure you prep for that challenge and not just ones like it.

7. If someone is trying to sell you something, be extra careful to keep your psychological distance.

8. Turns out, saying you?re sorry really is important?and not just to you.

9. We can become bored with just about anything, but there may be a way to reverse the habituation blues.

10. If you?re a man and find yourself in an argument with your significant other, choose your words very carefully.

And how each of these personally relate to myself and our common interest here:

1. Oh so true. Every time I wake up and see another gadget I wanted that cost twice as much as it's worth now, has become relatively obsolete, and sole purpose is for me to dust later - well that don't bring much joy. But when I wake up with a woody, I spend a few minutes reminiscing about some great memories. Sometimes those memories give me that woody to begin with. Priceless.

2. I know within a minute of meeting someone for the first time whether or not this will be money well spent. Sometimes the sex doesn't work as well as I'd like, but the time spent will still be worth it.

3. Got a serious bump in pay last year and rationalized that I could spend much more on having fun. Then I realized I had to pay tax on all that.

4. This might explain why instead of cuddling amd going to sleep after some lacklustre sex with the ex-wife, I went online and killed thousands of people playing Unreal Tournament.

5. Quite often I find that there's not enough women who have had the pleasure of my company, thus I feel obligated to enrich certain SP's lives to do naughty things with me. Ok, I'm really stretching on this one; I don't have any morals to feel guilty about not following.

6. You've been wanting to go greek for awhile now. Shove something up your ass so that you know the proper way of doing it, don't subject someone else to your ignorance. "But it looked so easy in porn!", won't avoid a scream and punch in the face when you fuck it up.

7. You were expecting greek as part of the package, and now that you're just about to put it in, she says with a smile that it's $100 more. Where's my wallet?

8. I am sorry that I came in your mouth after you told me how much you wanted me to do that and then you ran to the bathroom looking like you were going to vomit on the way there. Honest, it turned me on before thinking you got off on it and now I feel like I accidently farted when you were going down on me. It so won't happen again, I promise. I'm sorry.

9. I think what this is trying to say is remember all the great sex with other girls you had before you met your wife, and then your sex life with her will not be boring anymore. Should probably mean revisit those old flames or try something new with someone else before going back to mish with the missus.

10. I always try to stay rational and not get crazy in a dispute. And then something irrational comes out of her mouth so I have to get cancer or diabetes? Shit. Guess I will have to choose my words more carefully.