The experience of 'flow' requires a challenge slightly exceeding current skill — too easy is boring, too hard is anxiety.

Hypnosis is a real, measurable neurological state — not just performance.

The Dunning-Kruger effect describes how people with limited knowledge overestimate their competence, while experts often underestimate theirs.

The brain has a 'default mode network' active during rest and daydreaming — involved in self-referential thought.

Empathy allows people to understand others' feelings.

Phobias can be transmitted culturally — children model fear responses from observing caregivers.

Your perception shapes reality.

The Stanford prison experiment remains controversial in modern psychology.

Your brain creates your entire perception of reality from electrical signals.