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A new study published in the journal Religion, Brain & Behavior sheds light on a chilling but common human experience: the eerie sensation that someone—or something—is nearby, even when no one else is ...

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Gambling is an interesting psychological phenomenon, and there has been extensive research on how psychological processes affect gambling behavior. Here are five interesting gambling phenomena. 1 ...

A new study, which will be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that this includes signals about the mother's mental state.