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psychology

The science of magic: Why our minds are so easily deceived

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The science of magic: Why our minds are so easily deceived

Magicians show you how to experience the impossible. Psychologist Gustav Kuhn uses interactive demonstrations to reveal how our minds are so easily deceived

Video

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Don't miss: Primordial cities, a new Star Wars and the power of bad

Culture

Volunteers working in soup kitchen

Life

No more goody two shoes: Why true altruism can’t exist

Features

Invisible reflection

Humans

Who do you think you are? Why your sense of self is an illusion

Features

Hannah Critchlow

Video

Can we really choose our own fate, or is free will an illusion?

Video

fake news

Technology

People share fake news online even when they can tell it's not true

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MU artspace, Eindhoven

Technology

Don't miss: Bio-art, poetic elements, and Detroit's fate in your hands

Culture

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Mind

Married heterosexual men happiest earning 50 per cent more than wives

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Life

Why almost everyone believes in an afterlife – even atheists

Features

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Mind

If you don’t notice something within 1.5 seconds, you may never see it

Inattentional blindness, a kind of selective focus, is so strong that if you don’t notice new objects in your sight line quickly, you may never see them at all

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Definition

Duchenne smile

Humans

We remember the act of eating better than other things we do

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Technology

Psychological studies that rely on Amazon workers may be wrong

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Life

51¶¯Âþs have trained rats to drive tiny cars to collect food

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