University of Cambridge investigators determined in a new study that gamblers who display the highest levels of impulsivity are also the ones who are most likely to exhibit severe lapses and errors in their line of reasoning.The team says that these people are very likely to engage in superstitious behavior, such as ... |
4 July 2011 03:57 GMT |
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Humans, as well as other species, are superstitious creatures, even though there is no evolutionary benefit to being so. Or is there one, researchers ask, in light of new studies that explain how the behavior caught root and endured over the ages. In humans, superstition is more widespread than in other species. Many... |
8 June 2011 04:20 GMT |
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When people lack control and outcome predicting possibilities, they tend to think there's something wrong with reality, that there are incomprehensible forces at work, and their frustration and previous experiences twine into unnatural explanations and behaviors.There's no better explanation to how our min... |
3 October 2008 07:14 GMT |
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A white marble disc some 20 centimeters across, flat on one side and convex on the other, perforated in the center and presenting two concentric circles on the convex side, was found in the Mediterranean coast of Israel near the ancient Yavne-Yam port city. The Israeli authorities said in a press release issued this ... |
15 July 2008 04:29 GMT |
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