Amazing fact: suicide
One Chinese man, Chen Si, stopped more than 144 people from committing suicide off the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, by coming to the bridge every week.
Amazing fact: psychology
Psychology has discovered over forty cognitive, thinking errors all people are susceptible to.
Amazing fact: polygraph
The polygraph, the so-called lie detector, cannot reliably detect a person who is lying.
Amazing fact: psychologists
Psychologists do more than provide therapy to people in need (clinical psychology). They teach, do research, design programs for NASA, work with law enforcement, help business be more effective, and show athletes strategies for peak performance - to name a few of the many areas of expertise for psychologists.
Amazing fact: hypnosis
Hypnosis, when effective, is nothing more than the operation of the placebo effect.