Feb 18, 2013
is the occurrence of support from an invisible person or spirit during stressful or traumatic events. Climbers, solo sailors and shipwreck survivors are reported to experience the Third Man factor the most.
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is the occurrence of support from an invisible person or spirit during stressful or traumatic events. Climbers, solo sailors and shipwreck survivors are reported to experience the Third Man factor the most.
refers to the misdiagnosis by a mental health clinician of a patient due to the misinterpretation of real events as delusional. It refers to Martha Mitchell, the wife of John Mitchell, Attorney-General in the Nixon administration. Her claims of White House officials engaging in illicit activities were attributed to mental illness but were given some, if not complete, credence by the Watergate scandal.
is a neurological and physiological disorder which occurs below 150 metres/500 feet. Symptoms include tremors, jerking,strong drowsiness, muscle-twitching, visual disturbance, nausea, dizziness and reduced mental performance.
are a neurological phenomenon and a form of synesthesia wherein numbers are represented as a spatial map which involuntarily appears when the viewer thinks of numbers. Number-form synesthetes demonstrate faster reaction time in deciding which of two numbers is larger. Number forms are unique and stable across the lifetime. The following sample is the number form of a subject studied by Sir Francos Galton. Note that the first twelve figures correspond to those of a clock face.
Hallucinations
were experienced by 38.7% of participants in a sample from Britain, Germany and Italy, not including institutionalised peoples.
Memory and environment
Walking between rooms makes remembering ideas more difficult, proposed to be caused by either the changed context of the environment removing the triggers for the initial idea or by the doorway acting as an "event boundary" which divides where new memories are created in the mind.
Thanks to vengefulgiblets.
Change of personality with language change
is a well-researched phenomenon in which bicultural and bilingual persons report feeling and acting very differently according to which language they are currently speaking. While not all languages carry specific personality themes, instead producing different personalities in different speakers, speaking Chinese led participants to report lower self-esteem, more agreement with Chinese cultural views, and similar numbers of favourable and unfavourable self-statements, as opposed to English speakers who reported more favourable than unfavourable self-statements.
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