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A study found that radiologists who have years of training to ignore visual distractions were less susceptible to the Ebbinghaus illusion.

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Is it haunted or just well-ventilated? We uncovered the mystery of the 13th floor and how this tradition started.

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There are a lot of myths about divorce and divorce statistics that keep infecting our society. For starters, despite what ...

It’s astonishing how this group has contributed to building a nation and to shaping a culture, leaving such a strong imprint.

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These are all examples of superstitions or what Stuart Vyse, PhD, and the author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, calls magical thinking. More than half of Americans admitted ...