8 Psychological Effects in Interpersonal Communication
The Wild Horse Effect: The Wild Horse Effect refers to the phenomenon of getting angry over trivial matters and causing harm to oneself due to other people's faults. Vampire bats feed on the blood of wild horses, but the amount of blood sucked is very small, far from enough to kill the wild horses. The cause of death of the wild horses is rage and running. Many times, we have to figure out why we are angry and anxious, and don't hurt ourselves because of other people's faults.
Spotlight effect: People care too much about things related to themselves and think that other people’s eyes are focused on themselves. This is the spotlight effect. People always inadvertently magnify some of the problems they encounter, especially When a person makes a fool of himself, he will feel that everyone's eyes are on him, and he will never forget the incident afterwards. No one is paying attention to you like you are, and the "spotlight effect" only exists in your head and is not a reflection of the real situation. It would be better to try to distract yourself.
Hedgehog effect: The hedgehog effect refers to the phenomenon that hedgehogs come close to each other to keep warm when the weather is cold, but keep a certain distance to avoid stabbing each other. There is a famous saying in aesthetics: distance produces beauty. In fact, in real life, if people want to maintain harmonious coexistence, they also need to maintain a certain distance. When people interact, choosing the right distance is crucial. Keep a proper distance so that you can keep each other warm without stabbing each other.
Butterfly effect: The occasional vibration of a butterfly's wings in the Amazon rainforest may cause a tornado in Texas, USA, two weeks later. In life, the butterfly effect tells us that some seemingly small things may cause the whole thing to fall apart. Very small changes in initial conditions will cause extremely huge differences in its future state after continuous amplification. Many big accidents are caused by the smallest mistakes. As the saying goes, if a small hole is not repaired, a big hole will suffer. Every small change may eventually lead to a disaster.
Halo effect: People’s cognition and judgment of others often only start from the part and spread to arrive at the overall impression, that is, they often generalize. A certain quality of a person or a certain characteristic of an object gives a very good impression. Under the influence of this impression, people will also give better evaluations to other qualities of the person or other characteristics of the object. The halo effect, also known as the halo effect, is a factor that affects interpersonal perception. Celebrity effect is a typical halo effect.
Broken windows effect: Broken windows theory believes that if undesirable phenomena in the environment are allowed to exist, they will induce people to imitate or even worsen them. It was just a small problem at first, but if it is not corrected in time, the problem will become bigger and bigger, and more and more problems will lead to a series of more serious consequences. We must start from small things, we cannot indulge in some minor problems and bad habits of ourselves, and we must correct them in time when we find problems. This is actually "filling holes".
Exposure effect: The exposure effect means that we prefer things we are familiar with. Research on interpersonal attraction has found that we prefer things that are familiar to us. The more times we see a person, the more likeable and pleasant we find that person. We can reasonably apply the exposure effect to our interpersonal interactions. When interacting with others, we must first not leave a bad impression, and then appear in the other person's life moderately and often, but we should pay attention to maintaining a certain frequency of interaction.
The threshold effect: Once a person accepts a trivial request from others, in order to avoid cognitive dissonance or to give others a consistent impression, he is likely to accept a larger request. . "Excessive" is a manifestation of the "threshold effect". When making demands from others, don't make too high demands at the beginning. You should make small demands first, and then through encouragement, gradually raise higher demands to them, so that they will be more likely to accept higher demands. However, you must also pay attention to your own "threshold" and be sure to refuse when it is time to refuse.