You would think you’d be able to judge if a person looks happy, regardless of whether that person is a friend or a stranger. Turns out, we may not be as objective as we think — and we have a definite ...
Two days before my first trip to Afghanistan, in 2007, I was terrified, speaking no Dari and having never interviewed anyone in a war zone. On impulse, I grabbed my little red travel accordion, ...
That familiar unfamiliar feeling: What the opposite of déjà vu can tell us about cognitive delusions
As many people know, a bout of déjà vu can be a disorienting experience, like a momentary hiccup that distorts reality. Perhaps a friend says something and you suddenly feel like you’ve had this exact ...
The first night of the District 11 3A individual wrestling tournament, the 74-year-old classic event run in the classic venue of Liberty’s Memorial Gym, always throws up some matchups between ...
There’s something simultaneously familiar and startling about the art of Harmonia Rosales. Sometimes overtly, other times subtly, her paintings allude to Renaissance masterpieces — tableaus of gods ...
It's a cheesy pick-up line: "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?" It might also be something that profoundly alters how we perceive other people. According to new research from the University of ...
People tend to perceive faces they are familiar with as looking happier than unfamiliar faces, even when the faces objectively express the same emotion to the same degree, according to new research.
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