Did you know your brain is so good at finding patterns that it can sometimes make up ones that don’t exist?
This is the result of a Cognitive Bias called Magical Thinking, which refers to the tendency of the human brain to make associations between unrelated events.
Many of the most common examples come from the realm of superstition, but there is a very real reason our brains work this way and it has to do with why humans have survived as long as we have. [Read more…]