Psychology is a branch of science concerned with studying human behavior and its mental and social balance. Some psychological studies have reached strange results and revealed many wonders of the human species! In this list, we present to you the 5 strangest results reached by psychological studies.

1- Studies confirmed that if you tell your goals and what you want to achieve to anyone, it reduces your motivation to do it:

Professor Peter Gollwitzer conducted four tests on 63 people and found that those who do not announce their goals to others are usually the ones who achieve them, while those who tell others about their goals experience what is called a "premature sense of completion."

This means that the brain does not differentiate between talking about achieving the goal and actually achieving it, and it feels that these goals have already been accomplished due to what is called "identity symbols" in the human brain, which create your self-image. Since both - the action and talking about it - create new symbols, this speech satisfies the brain to the extent that it neglects the idea of striving to create other symbols.

2- Spending money on others makes you happier than spending it on yourself:

A study by Harvard Business School showed that people are happier when they spend money on others. You might notice this as we tend to care more about anticipating the recipient’s reaction to a gift than about what we brought as a gift ourselves.

3- Children nowadays are more stressed:

Studies have shown that high school students now are more stressed than patients with anxiety and depression in the 1950s.

About 49% of the general population have suffered or suffer from anxiety, depression, and drug abuse. Specifically, there is evidence that the human species generally becomes more stressed every decade. There are some contemplative reasons for this. For example, people move more, have less interaction with their communities, change jobs, are less likely to marry, and more likely to live alone.

4- Decisions are more rational if you think about them in another language:

A recent study conducted by a team from the University of Chicago on citizens from the United States and Korea showed that thinking in a different language reduces deep-rooted heuristics and misleading biases that overly affect perceptions of risks and benefits.

5- Talented people are more likely to underestimate themselves, while ignorant and incompetent people think they are geniuses:

Philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “One of the most painful things in our time is that those who feel certain and confident are fools, and those who have imagination and understanding are full of doubt and hesitation.” His statement was confirmed by a recent study conducted by David Dunning and Justin Kruger, known as the “Dunning-Kruger effect,” at Cornell University. The study involved students answering questions about their skills, performance, and experiences. The result was that incompetent and unskilled people do not realize for years their incompetence despite all the observations around them in everything they do, but because they believe it’s impossible to be incompetent,

they are unable to perceive these signs and therefore do not learn from them. This is because they lack the ability to differentiate between talent and competence versus incompetence and low competence. Despite all this, those who truly possess real talent tend to underestimate themselves and what they do, thinking that anyone could do it and that it is not that difficult since they managed to do it themselves, even though the opposite is true.