Neuroscience
Where does your “Aha” moment come from?
“Eureka, I’ve got it!”
That’s what Archimedes was reported to have shrieked as he jumped from the bathtub and ran through the streets sans clothing. It turns out he had just figured out how to calculate density and volume. Exciting, eh?
OK, so maybe not that exciting in this day and age. But what IS exciting is [...]
Does wanting happiness make it harder to find?
In a recent study published in the Journal of Psychological Science, scientists discovered that the more we look for a particular object, particularly if it is rare, the less likely we are to see it. It doesn’t really make logical sense, does it?
Certainly if you are looking for something you would notice it, right? Not [...]
