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• Micro-expressions are the best predictor of true feelings and the truth. 
• When a person crosses both legs and arms, it means that they have emotionally withdrawn from the conversation. 
• There are six universal facial expressions: happiness, anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and surprise. Also, some scientists think that embarrassment and contempt should also be considered primary facial expressions. 
• A normal blinking rate is 6-8 blinks per minute, and the eyes remain closed for about 1/10th of the second. However, the blinking increases dramatically when people are lying or are under pressure.
• Women laugh at men they are attracted to, while men are attracted to women who laugh at them. A man wants a woman with a good sense of humor, but he doesn’t mean she needs to make jokes, it means she needs to laugh at his jokes. 
• When uneasy, men tend to touch their faces, while women touch their clothing, neck, arms, hair, and jewelry. 
• A partial shoulder shrug shows that the speaker doesn’t believe in what they are saying. On the other hand, if both shoulders rise equally and fully, then it means that the speaker is giving truthful statements. 
• When stressed, some people pacify themselves by crossing their arms and rubbing their hands against their shoulders, i.e. giving themselves a body hug. This way is reminiscent of the way a mother hugs her child.
• When a woman is not attracted to someone or doesn’t feel comfortable in the conversation, she will place her bag in front of her as a shield to create distance between her and the other person, or she will clutch it tightly. On the other hand, if she likes the person in front of her, she will remove her bag to the side, signaling that she doesn’t want anything to stand in her way. 
• The most common lying signs are the touching of the nose, the covering of the mouth, the rubbing of the eye, the incongruous nodding, the scratching of the neck, the grabbing of the ear, fingers in the mouth, and the collar pull. 
• Contrary to popular belief, maintaining eye contact usually means that the person is lying.
• If you sob out of happiness, the first tear comes from the right eye, and if you cry out of sadness, it comes from the left. 

Fun, Cool, And Weird Psychological Facts

• Men are not funnier and more entertaining than women; they just make more jokes because they don’t care whether others will like their humor. 
• People working in rooms with blue walls or decorations are more productive and creative. 
• Having siblings helps with getting along with peers. 
• If you have a plan B, then your plan A is less likely to succeed. 
• No person born blind has suffered from schizophrenia. 
• Hearing one single negative thing can destroy five positive memories. 
• The way someone treats their employees is an indicator of their character.
• People read quicker with longer lines; however, they prefer shorter ones. 
• If a law is too strict, then we would be more likely to break it. 
• Consuming food without preservatives increases our IQ by up to 14%.
• You are endlessly pursuing human faces in inanimate objects.
• Memories are like pieced images rather than precise snapshots.
• Food prepared by someone else tastes better than yours even when you are using the same recipe.
• When you are low on money, you obsess over it.
• You can recall more easily the beginning and the ending of something than the middle part.
• Your ‘obsession’ with social media is connected to your psychological system. 
• Large groups make more subjective and perhaps worse choices than smaller groups of people.
• You are conditioned to like and enjoy the songs you listened to in high school.
• Phobias can be memories that are passed down from our ancestors by means of our DNA.
• Almost every color has a physical wavelength attached to it, except magenta. The brain views magenta as “not green.”
• Rage, sorrow, happiness, surprise, anxiety, and disgust are the six feelings that are involuntarily shown to our faces.
• Money can buy happiness but only to a certain extent. 
• Social media is psychologically designed to be addictive. 
• People are happier when they are busy doing something. That’s why when they are upset; they need to do something to keep their mind from thinking about their problems.
• Chocolate produces the hormone oxytocin, which is the ‘happy’ hormone responsible for your happiness.
• Good liars are also good at detecting lies from other people.
• A gene is the reason why some people are negative all the time.
• Striping off the paper from drink bottles is a sign of sexual frustration.
• Some researchers think adding Internet addiction to the list of mental illnesses. 
• A man named Billy Milligan is reported to have had 24 different personalities. 
• The sight of water has a calming effect on people. 
• The fastest supercomputer in the world takes 24 million watts of power to run, but our brains only need 20 watts and operate over 100,000 times faster. 
• Asking yourself, ‘Will I?’ will motivate you more than saying ‘I will.’
• A Paris syndrome is getting so excited to see Paris and then realizing that Paris is not what you are hoping to be.