PsyBlog presents 10 psychological ‘mind’ myths that can catch you out:
- We Don’t Only Use 10% of Our Brains
- Blind People’s Other Senses are Not More Acute
- Why Psychology is Not Just Common Sense
- The Attitude-Behaviour Gap: Why We Say One Thing But Do The Opposite
- Newborns Don’t Bond Immediately with their Mothers (or Within the First 3 Months)
- 50% of People Think We See Like Superman, Despite Perception Course
- The Left-Right Brain ‘Split’ is Dramatically Exaggerated: Two Brains for the Price of One?
- Graphology: Connections Between Handwriting and Personality are Illusory
- The Mind Cannot Beat Cancer (But Can Help People Cope)
- A Bigger Brain’s Not Really Better