Body language: Hands clasped in front - PsychMechanics
The 'hands clasped in front' body language gesture is displayed in three major ways. Clasped hands in front of the face, hands clasped on a desk or a lap,| PsychMechanics
The 'hands clasped in front' body language gesture is displayed in three major ways. Clasped hands in front of the face, hands clasped on a desk or a lap,| PsychMechanics
The ‘wringing hands’ body language gesture is where a person squeezes one hand with the other repeatedly or alternately, or both. Usually, the knuckles of| PsychMechanics
Isolated gestures are rarely noticed while observing body language. Often, a person will convey his emotional state via more than one gesture and this| PsychMechanics
The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is a Self-Report (SR) test that measures your level of social anxiety. This social anxiety test helps you| PsychMechanics
People display nervous body language when they find themselves in threatening social situations. When a person believes they won’t be able to handle a| PsychMechanics
Indifference simply means not caring. When someone is indifferent toward you, they’re showing they don’t care about you. Caring for others is an| PsychMechanics
Hands are an important means of human nonverbal communication. This article will explore the various hand gestures and their meanings with the aid of| PsychMechanics
When we greet others from a distance, we give them a slight head nod or we raise our eyebrows very briefly, the latter resulting in an expression known as| PsychMechanics
Anger is an emotion that gets triggered when we feel threatened. The threat could be real or perceived. We’re always angry with an object- another person,| PsychMechanics
The hands on hips pose is one of the most common body language gestures that we encounter. I’m pretty sure that most people, at least intuitively, know| PsychMechanics
Anger is a normal emotion that we experience when we perceive that something has gone wrong in our life. That perception may be right or wrong, and that’s| PsychMechanics
Power dynamics are a natural part of every relationship, especially romantic relationships. For a relationship to work, both parties should be able to| PsychMechanics
Patting another person's shoulder is common in social interactions. This body language gesture is highly context-dependent. Who does it and when| PsychMechanics
Relationships are complicated. If you think quantum mechanics is complex, wait till you get into a relationship. When two minds collide and enter into a| PsychMechanics
If you want to learn how to build rapport, the mirroring technique is perhaps the most effective way to do so. Mirroring gives you a fair glimpse of how| PsychMechanics
Sitting and standing with legs crossed, like crossing the arms, indicates a fundamentally defensive attitude. While arm-crossing is a subconscious| PsychMechanics
Why do poor people have so many kids while those higher up the social hierarchy tend to have fewer children? Numerous factors have come together to make| PsychMechanics
Learning by osmosis, learning by proxy, or passive learning involves absorbing knowledge and skills by being around people with such knowledge and skills.| PsychMechanics
This article will explore the psychology behind clumsiness and why people fall or drop things when they're clumsy. Of course, there can be purely physical| PsychMechanics
Most people know what ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert’ means. Some know what ambivert means, but very few people have encountered the term ‘omnivert’. Both| PsychMechanics
To understand what causes overthinking, we need to understand why we think at all. After that, we can begin to explore why this process goes into| PsychMechanics
Like every other universal emotion, sadness shows in our body language. People often don’t even have to utter “I’m sad” because they have sadness written| PsychMechanics
A mixed facial expression is the one that someone makes when they’re experiencing two or more emotions at the same time. A masked facial expression| PsychMechanics
Since dreams are the creations of the subconscious mind, they’re all about emotions. There are very few logic-based dreams. In fact, lack of logic is a| PsychMechanics
When watching a game on TV, have you noticed how some viewers shout at the players? “Make the pass, you MORON.” “You’ve got to hit the home run this time.| PsychMechanics
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition characterized by the following symptoms: Impulsivity Unstable/negative identity Chronic| PsychMechanics
This Multiple Personality Disorder test utilizes the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), a questionnaire that measures your degree of dissociation.| PsychMechanics
Passive-aggressiveness is a communication style in which a person expresses anger or hostility indirectly. Active aggression would be expressing anger| PsychMechanics
Priming in psychology is a phenomenon that occurs when exposure to a stimulus influences our thoughts and behavior in response to another succeeding| PsychMechanics
You just fell victim to the Dunning Kruger effect, one of the many biases that the human mind is prone to. The effect, named after researchers David Dunning| PsychMechanics
Theories of motivation attempt to explain what motivates human behaviour, especially in the context of a workplace. Motivation theories try to explain| PsychMechanics
To get rid of negative thoughts, you first need to understand why they're triggered in the first place. Only then can we talk about how to get rid of them| PsychMechanics
This article will throw light on the major psychological causes of superstitions. While people have countless superstitious beliefs, the underlying| PsychMechanics
Karma is the belief that your future is dictated by what you do in the present. Specifically, if you do good, good things will happen to you, and if you| PsychMechanics
Life is full of ups and downs. The ups are accompanied by positive emotions and the downs by negative emotions. Negative emotions bring discomfort and| PsychMechanics
According to the law of attraction, when you believe that you’ll get something, constantly visualize yourself having it and desire it| PsychMechanics
Your head and neck gestures reveal much more about your attitude than you think. When we come into contact with other people, their head (face, in| PsychMechanics
Is it really possible to not care what others think of you? Many people claim they are free from caring what others think and approval-seeking but are| PsychMechanics
Consumption of food plays a pivotal role in ensuring the survival and functionality of all organisms- be it a single-celled amoeba, a plant, or a human| PsychMechanics
People usually prefer romantic partners in the same age range as them. It makes sense because we’re more exposed to people in our age range through| PsychMechanics
Our ego or self-esteem is how worthy we think we are. It’s part of our self-concept and self-image- how we view ourselves. A person with a fragile ego has| PsychMechanics
In this post, we discuss the costs and benefits to men who have affairs i.e. who pursue the short-term mating strategy. Tales of the testes.| PsychMechanics
Attraction can sometimes be a very complex thing. What one man finds attractive in a woman, another may not. This is especially true when we take into| PsychMechanics
Children experience trauma when they find themselves in a threatening situation. They're particularly vulnerable to threats because they’re helpless and| PsychMechanics
When you experience a traumatic event, your mind perceives great danger and goes into survival mode. When your mind is in survival mode, your senses| PsychMechanics
Trauma usually occurs in response to a seriously threatening event. Trauma is likely to happen when stress is intense or chronic, and a person cannot cope| PsychMechanics
Thoughts can be conscious (voluntary) or subconscious (involuntary). If I ask you to solve a math problem, you’ll use your reasoning or conscious thought.| PsychMechanics
Trauma can be caused by any negative, life-threatening experience. People can be traumatized by other people, accidents, illnesses, natural disasters,| PsychMechanics
Abuse is a pattern of behavior that causes harm. The harm may be physical, psychological, financial, or legal. Physical, financial, or legal damage is| PsychMechanics
When people talk about suddenly remembering old memories, the memories they’re referring to are usually autobiographical or episodic memories. As the name| PsychMechanics
For relationships to work, they need to be equal or slightly unequal. Equal relationships are those where both parties gain equally. Slightly unequal| PsychMechanics
This article will explore how groups form and disintegrate in the context of the stages of group development. In Human Resources Management, there’s this| PsychMechanics
Repression and anger When experiencing an emotional state, you have, broadly speaking, three choices. You can express, suppress, or repress it.| PsychMechanics
Attachment theory is one of the most established theories in psychology. It states that our early childhood interactions with primary caregivers shape how| PsychMechanics
Everywhere you look, people seem to be having trouble with their relationships. What’s going on?Why are relationships so full of problems and| PsychMechanics
Definition Cold mother syndrome is a pervasive pattern of maternal emotional detachment. It’s a style of parenting, specifically mothering, in which the| PsychMechanics
It makes sense to dislike someone when they’ve harmed or wronged you. But why would you dislike someone who hasn’t wronged you in any way? You know you| PsychMechanics
As much as well-intentioned people try to create an equal society, it simply cannot happen. People organize themselves into status hierarchies wherever| PsychMechanics
Smartness or intelligence can be defined in several ways. I won’t bore you with all the definitions. No matter how you slice and dice it, smartness boils| PsychMechanics
Covert narcissism is a type of narcissism that, as the name implies, is hidden. Outwardly, covert narcissists may appear modest or even shy, but if you| PsychMechanics
While both men and women play games in relationships, women seem to get called out more on their games than men do. Most men are pretty straightforward| PsychMechanics
I was part of the core team that organized a fest in our college. We had regular meetings to keep us updated on the progress. During this one meeting,| PsychMechanics
Projection in psychology means projecting your own mental states and traits onto others- traits that they don’t possess. Just as a movie projector| PsychMechanics
It’s tempting to think our memory works like the memory of a video recorder, in that it replays information exactly as recorded. This isn’t always the| PsychMechanics
If you badly need to put someone in their place, you’ve probably been a victim of verbal aggression. Examples of verbal aggression include: Put-downs| PsychMechanics
It’s frustrating when every conversation with your loved one turns into an argument. When you’re done arguing and finally get the time to reflect on what| PsychMechanics
Ever had that experience where you see a friend on the street and walk up to greet them, only to realize that they’re a complete stranger? Ever mistaken a| PsychMechanics
If you’ve ever perused through job notifications, you must have noticed that employers are constantly looking for ‘attention to detail’ in applicants. If| PsychMechanics
Depression or Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a debilitating condition in which a person experiences:| PsychMechanics
Trauma is typically caused by a survival and/or reproduction-threatening event that the mind sees as dangerous. While daily life problems cause mild levels of| PsychMechanics
When things go wrong in your life, do you find yourself thinking:| PsychMechanics
Countless books have been written on the power of thoughts to shape reality. Motivational speakers and spiritual gurus keep reminding people of the importance| PsychMechanics
You listen to a new song that you like and make your sibling, partner or best friend hear it, often against their will.| PsychMechanics
Why are babies so cute and adorable? Why are we compelled, as if by some mysterious force, to hold and nurture cute babies?| PsychMechanics
One morning you wake up and find yourself not in your home but in a small wooden hut. Startled, you look outside through a hole in the hut wall beside| PsychMechanics
Keeping your hands in your pockets is one of those body language gestures that can have multiple, seemingly contradictory meanings. In body language, the| PsychMechanics
To furrow one’s eyebrows means to wrinkle them. Someone with furrowed eyebrows has visible lines on their forehead. The furrowing of eyebrows occurs when| PsychMechanics
Eyebrows In extreme disgust, the eyebrows are lowered forming a ‘V’ above the nose and producing wrinkles on the forehead. In mild disgust, the eyebrows| PsychMechanics
We all desire some degree of control in our lives because it makes us feel good and in charge of things. However, controlling behavior can quickly slide| PsychMechanics
In this post, we'll discuss the various shoulder movements and what they can reveal about their mental state. Shoulder shrug Raising the shoulders is a| PsychMechanics
One way in which men display dominance is by displaying their crotch. I know it sounds weird but, as I’ll explain later, this behavior is something| PsychMechanics
'Crossed arms' is perhaps the most common body language gesture that we come across in our day-to-day lives. Crossing arms across the chest is a classic| PsychMechanics
Seeking validation from others means seeking their approval for your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, choices, values, and actions. The desire to seek| PsychMechanics
A toxic family is defined as one where there’s a consistent pattern of family members exhibiting harmful behaviors toward other members. While conflict is| PsychMechanics
Countless books have been written on how to find your purpose. It’s among the most asked questions in self-help, therapy, and counseling areas. In this| PsychMechanics
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?’” - Shannon Alder The| PsychMechanics
Overthinking is getting stuck in repetitive thought loops about a problem or a situation in a way that is unproductive and leads to negative emotions like| PsychMechanics
In this article, we'll look at how people display the facial expression of sadness by going over different parts of the face one by one. Eyebrows The| PsychMechanics
There are a lot of theories explaining why we dream, but I’m going to keep it simple for you. Dreams, at least the meaningful ones, are the result of| PsychMechanics
Ever taken a common sense test that 90% of people supposedly fail at, only to find that the questions have nothing to do with common sense? Instead, the| PsychMechanics
The mind is usually good at handling pain. Pain is your mind and body’s way of alerting you that something’s gone wrong and needs fixing. Sometimes,| PsychMechanics
Passive-aggressive behavior is subtle and so can be difficult to detect, understand, and change. Let’s look at how a typical passive-aggressive person| PsychMechanics
To give you an idea about how body language plays a role in communication, I want to introduce you to Ahmed. Ahmed was a very jolly and a happy-go-lucky| PsychMechanics
Memory in psychology is defined as the persistence of learning. You can learn, recognize, and recall information. This shows your mind has an in-built| PsychMechanics
Learning is the process of moving from a state of not knowing to a state of knowing. Learning typically occurs by understanding new information, i.e.,| PsychMechanics
You’ve probably come across one of those people who believe they receive signs from the universe. Maybe you’re one of them. I certainly have thought this| PsychMechanics
In this article, we'll analyze the facial expressions of fear and surprise. We'll look at how the different facial areas appear in these two emotions. The| PsychMechanics
Jim was an employee at a sales company who had joined recently. He behaved normally with everyone and no one could ever label him as ‘arrogant’. After two| PsychMechanics
Sheena was an over-eater. One day she finally realized that she was indulging in her bad habit only to lift her mood. This awareness increased her| PsychMechanics
