Finding Psychology

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Experience many kinds of readings written by professional writers from the U.S. and England. They used interesting topics that were carefully chosen after analyzing elementary curriculums from around the world including Korea, the U.S., England, and Australia among many others.

Before Reading

Psychology around us

You have often ridden an elevator with a mirror on one of the walls, haven’t you?
Why did people start hanging mirrors on elevator walls? Well, elevators in the early days were way too slow, so users had a lot of complaints. Elevator manufacturers tried to resolve their complaints, but it was hard to produce faster elevators with the technology at that time. This problem, however, was resolved easily thanks to a great idea.
The idea was attaching a mirror to one of the walls! People were lost in thought while looking at their own reflections in the mirror and didn’t care much about the elevator running at such a slow speed. It is a case that solved a problem by applying a simple psychological law that states that people think time passes faster when they are engrossed in something related to their real life. Psychology, a field of study that studies human behavior, helps our lives greatly when its ideas are applied successfully to our real lives as happened in this case.

Summary

Today is a special day for twin brothers John and Mark because it is the day that their elder brother Andrew promised to take them to a movie for their 12th birthday. The twins haven’t decided what movie they are going to watch, but they are looking forward to watching a movie. On the other hand, their elder brother, Andrew, a college student, has been engrossed in his psychology classes recently. Even though he explains the greatness of psychology to his little brothers enthusiastically, his little brothers think it is boring. So he makes an interesting bet with his little brothers while going to a movie theater. The bet is that if Andrew finds five examples of psychological theories applied to real life before their movie starts, the twins will buy him a bucket of popcorn. On the contrary, Andrew has to buy each of the twins a bucket of popcorn if he can’t find five examples. What will the result be? Will Andrew be able to find five examples of psychological theories applied to real life? Let’s read the book to look for psychology in everyday life together.