Researchers examined decades of data to create a unifying theory to explain biases in perception. Photo-Illustration: Martha Morales/The University of Texas at Austin How humans perceive the world ...

It's no secret that people vary in their pandemic risk perceptions. Source: Emily Parrish, used with permission. I’m sure you’ve noticed that people vary in their assessments of pandemic risks. It’s ...

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In four pre-registered studies across Belgium, the US, and the UK, people judged anti-obesity medication users as putting in ...

Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that people's expectations of the world can influence their perceptions, either by directing their attention to expected stimuli or by reducing ...

To clarify the mechanism of serial dependence in number perception, a research team conducted two tests, independently asking subjects to estimate the number of coins, or to estimate the value of ...

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Several House Democrats are sponsoring an expansion of Washington’s hate crimes laws to include a perpetrator’s perception of the victim’s characteristics, regardless of the victim’s actual attributes ...

Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton fought three times in the 1970s. The record shows Ali winning two out of three, but had you asked most ringside observers – and even Ali himself – Norton may have deserved ...