Human consciousness carries out planned actions, but what is under the "iceberg" is unexplained and unconscious. People perform certain actions without realizing it, and scientists explain why we do certain things.
Too often we do something subconsciously, but later, when about her we are thinking, we don't even realize why we made it. We have collected some of these psychological facts about ourselves, whose reasons for implementation scientists explain.
We turn down the volume of the music in the car when we are in a foreign environment.
Imagine that you are driving on an important meeting on site, which you don't even know. You will probably quit to talk with interlocutors, you will turn down the radio volume and you will completely focused on the road. The reason for this lies in the fact that in the moments when we focus on listening, our brain pays less attention to information from our environment. So we lower the volume of the music because we don't want to miss the way, notes Steven Yantis, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
We prefer to park our car next to another car in an empty parking lot.
The reason for this kind of behavior is explained by the fact that we people are social creatures. Often let's follow to the crowd in everyday life, therefore we automatically park our car near another car in the parking lot.
Men never use the adjacent urinal.
Public toilets are not the most pleasant place. The reason men never go to the urinal next door if another man is there is because they want their own personal space. Most do not want to be exposed in the eyes of others men.
We don't take the last piece of pizza.
It is interesting that people they rarely want to take the last piece pizzas, although that's something we want to get. Scientists Daniel A. Effron and Dale T. Miller of Stanford University find that people in a large society do not take the last slice of pizza, the last donut or the last piece of gum because they don't feel they have that right. This phenomenon was called dispersion of justice.
We don't buy either the most expensive or the cheapest things.
It's about wanting spend money rationally. We usually try to choose products with good price and quality. Sellers are aware of this, so sometimes they sell similar products on purpose they place the most expensive and the cheapest product next to each other. In most cases, customers do not have time for hesitation, that's why they decide to buy a cheaper product.
