Study of Buddhist monks suggests celibacy can have surprising evolutionary advantages
Why would someone join a group that forbade them from having children and mandated celibacy? After all, reproduction is at…
Category: psychology
Strange Illusion Demonstrates How the Human Brain Mess With Time to Maintain Our Expectations
People frequently declare, “I saw it with my own eyes.” The assumption is that something must have happened because we perceived it. However, what we see may be impacted by a variety of factors, including our own expectations and preconceptions, as demonstrated by a peculiar new experiment. Researchers have uncovered a “novel perceptual illusion” that successfully reorders the apparent temporal order of events…