Top 10 Psychology Facts You Must Know!

10 Psychological Facts that will blow your mind !!

1.) Babies born during the month of "May" are heavier than babies in other months.

Children born in May are on average 200 grams heavier at birth than children born in any other month. Newborn babies eat as often as 12 times a day. In January 2005, a Brazilian woman gave birth to a baby weighing 16.7 pounds. ... The average child will eat 15 pounds of cereal in a year.

2.) Almost twice as many serial killers are born in November.

Here's a more succinct summary of the data from UberFacts: "Seventeen serial killers were born in November, compared with an average of nine for other months, out of a total of more than 100 in the study. Those born in November are most likely to believe they get a raw deal.

Unlike people with anxiety disorders, who know they have a problem but cannot control it, people with personality disorders generally are not aware that they have a problem and do not believe they have anything to control.

4.) The strangers in your dream are actually people you have seen in your real life.

Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams, we see real faces of real people we have seen during our lives but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brains to utilize during our dreams.

5.) When you cry from happiness, the first tear will come from the right eye, but if you cry from sadness, it will fall from the left.

Wondering what tears are good for? Well, lots of things. According to wellness expert Michael Roizen, MD, tears are beneficial. They help you see clearly. They wash debris from your eyes. They communicate all kinds of feelings.

6.) Men say approximately 12,500 words per day, whereas women say 22,000.

About a year ago, Louann Brizendine, founder, and director of the University of California, San Francisco's Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic, published The Female Brain. One of the most cited gems within its pages was a claim that women are chatterboxes, speaking an average of 20,000 words per day, nearly three times the mere 7,000 spoken by men.

7.) The people who give the best advice are usually the ones with the most problems.

If you're an expert who gives advice or offers professional consultations, you can call yourself an adviser. You can have an adviser in many areas — they may also be called a consultant. A person who helps you decide what classes to take is called an academic adviser.

8.) Being alone for a long time is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Loneliness has the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, making it even more dangerous than obesity. The survey, conducted by the health insurer Cigna, found widespread loneliness, with nearly half of Americans reporting they feel alone, isolated, or left out at least some of the time.

9.) If saliva can't dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

Why do you need saliva to taste foods? For food to have taste, chemicals from the food must first dissolve in saliva. Once dissolved, the chemicals can be detected by receptors on taste buds.

10.) Our brain size has decreased by 10% since we were hunters and gatherers.

It's something of a well-known secret among anthropologists: Based on measurements of skulls, the average brain volume of Homo sapiens has reportedly decreased by roughly 10 percent in the past 40,000 years.