Restless spirits can be sneaky little devils, sometimes literally, and find the most unlikely of places to hide out and show themselves when least expected. Nowhere is safe, not in bed, at a museum or ...

For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study shows that there is also another ...

The first in a series of articles about all of the weird things that people put in places in their body, which then get stuck there. In short, decisions that make absolutely no sense. Location.

Her continues a screen tradition: Ryan Gosling, Andrew McCarthy and now Joaquin Phoenix cozying up to objects In Spike Jonze’s acclaimed new film Her, the titular pronoun refers to the female voice of ...

Seeing faces in common objects is not unusual. You might have seen the “man in the moon”, or seen faces in electrical outlets or sliced bell peppers. A new study from the National Institute of Mental ...

The mind is great at spotting potential friends, even when they’re inanimate. Feel emotional after spotting what looks like a face in your breakfast cereal, or perhaps what kind of looks like Virgin ...

If superstition constitutes mental illness, then indeed I am mental, for it has been my lifelong habit to punish any inanimate object that hurts me. Let's say I bruise my toe walking into an ottoman.

Oxytocin may be responsible for new mothers' heightened ability to see faces in inanimate objects, but more research is needed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...