Bulan: Maret 2022

Pathological lying, also known as mythomania and pseudologia fantastica, is the chronic behavior of compulsive or habitual lying. Unlike telling the occasional white lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings or getting in trouble, a pathological liar seems to lie for no apparent reason. This can make it frustrating or hard to know what to do if you believe you’ve met one. Though pathological lying has been recognized for more than a century, there’s not yet a clear universal definition of the condition. Some pathological lying may result from a mental condition while others appear to have no medical reason for the behavior. A pathological liar is someone who lies compulsively.… Read More

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In a decade that saw a massive expansion in social media, slang is spreading faster than ever. As a result we have many complex, historied terms that might set us apart — or make us look old in front of our kids later on. Of course, we have no way of knowing which ones are which now, but as 2020 draws nearer, we can certainly look back at the past decade of slang terms and take a guess at which ones will be remembered most fondly, or get the most continued use. One of them is “Flex”. We all know the term “flex” in the context of flexing a muscle,… Read More

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A situation in which someone sees a pattern or image of something that does not exist, for example a face in a cloud, is an example of a phenomenon known as “pareidolia”. It is the human tendency to read significance into random or vague stimuli (both visual and auditory). The term comes from the Greek words “para” (παρά), meaning beside or beyond, and “eidolon” (εἴδωλον), meaning form or image. Though animals or plants can “appear” in clouds and human speech can do the same in static noise, the appearance of a face where there is none is perhaps the most common variant of pareidolia. Pareidolia was once thought of as… Read More

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