Human behaviours

Here I will include things about people, how our brains work and how we behave. It’s a long, random list and will take a while to write all of this.

Here’s what I have in my to-write list:

  • Vision, including peripheral vision
    • Visual focus
    • Peripheral vision
    • Saccades
    • Seeing in 3d
    • We assume the sun is above us
  • Visual attention – attracting it and keeping it
    • Change blindness
  • We’re built to love faces
  • Seeing in colour
    • Only see colours we can name
    • Colourblindness
    • The meaning of colours vary by culture
  • Reading online is harder than reading on paper
  • People read faster with a longer line length, but prefer a shorter
  • 7+-2
  • Attention, concentration and distraction
    • Invisible gorilla
    • Looks harder, feels harder
    • Flow
    • Recovering from distraction
  • Memory
    • Sensory, working, longterm
    • Recency effect
    • Remembering strong feelings
    • Muscle memory
    • Remembering incorrectly
    • We reconstructu memories every time we remember them
  • Forming and breaking habits
  • Affordance
  • Intuitiveness
  • The curse of knowledge
  • False consensus effect
  • The more people are uncertain, the more they defend their ideas
  • You can’t influence people with facts when they are using emotions to make decisions
  • All the cognitive biases
  • Learning new things
  • Satisficing
  • We enjoy surprises
  • Making mistakes
    • Mistakes
    • Slips
  • Decision making
    • Everything is relative
      • Anchoring and comparing
      • Price used as an indicator of quality
      • Distinction bias
    • More choice, less action
    • When we own it we love it more
    • When it’s scarce, we want it more
    • Loss aversion
  • Making commitments and being consistent
  • Our expectations affect our experience
  • Keeping motivated
  • Simple barriers make us stop
  • Misattribution of arousal
  • Gifts and obligations
  • We love stories
  • Social proof
  • Wired for language, not for reading
  • Cognitive dissonance
  • Zero
  • Priming
  • Availability heuristic
  • Framing
  • Halo effect
  • Hindsight bias
  • Why we categorise