Sleep
The medical term for the inability to fall or stay asleep.
What is insomnia?
The ability of the brain to make something in the body work (like a medicine) simply by believing in it.
What is the Placebo effect?
When information about one side of an opinion is blocked, leading people to believe the other side.
What is censorship bias?
The dream stage of sleep, where the brain is still active.
What is REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep?
When multiple people share the same false memory of a fact or event, leading them to believe it is true.
What is the Mandela effect?
When people are less likely to help someone in need when others are present.
What is the bystander effect?
The hormone produced by your brain that helps you sleep.
What is melatonin?
When people change their productivity based on whether they're being watched.
What is the observer bias?
A positive psychological bond formed between a victim and abuser.
What is Stockolm syndrome?
The internal 24-hour clock that tells you when to be tired.
What is the Circadian rhythm?
The same as the Placebo effect, but with negative consequences.
An effect where people mimic those who surround them, in behaviors, physicality, and speech.
What is the Chameleon effect?
The proper name for the annoying muscle spasm that wakes you up right before you fall asleep.
What is a hypnic jerk?
When someone with minimal knowledge of a subject tends to overestimate their competence.
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
A phenomenon that occurs when a group of intellegent individuals make a suboptimal decision, because each think the others want that.
What is Groupthink?