People experiencing paruresis (also known as shy bladder syndrome) may sometimes fall for the trap of ruminating over and complaining about external factors such as public restroom layouts. For example, one might think ‘I wish the restroom at my place of work had floor to ceiling cubicles’ or ‘I’m experiencing a bashful bladder because the […]
I would like to start this blog post by describing the findings of Maxwell Maltz in his career as a plastic surgeon. Maxwell Maltz, as any plastic surgeon would, ‘fixed’ people’s faces. In his book Psycho Cybernetics, Maxwell describes how some of his patients seemed to have experienced an ‘emotional facelift’ as a result of
Have you ever heard of the ‘spotlight effect’? The spotlight effect is a term used in social psychology whereby people who are self-conscious about a physical or behavioural trait of theirs, overestimate the extent to which other people will notice this particular trait. Each and every one of us is the protagonist of our own
