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  2. Watching-eye effect - Wikipedia

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    The watching-eye effect says that people behave more altruistically and exhibit less antisocial behavior in the presence of images that depict eyes, because these images insinuate that they are being watched. Eyes are strong signals of perception for humans. They signify that our actions are being seen and paid attention to even through mere ...

  3. McGurk effect - Wikipedia

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    McGurk effect. The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. [ 1] The visual information a person gets ...

  4. Phantom vibration syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Phantom vibration syndrome or phantom ringing syndrome is the perception that one's mobile phone is vibrating or ringing when it is not. Other terms for this concept include ringxiety (a portmanteau of ring and anxiety), fauxcellarm (a portmanteau of "faux" /fo͜ʊ/ meaning "fake" or "false" and "cellphone" and "alarm" pronounced similarly to "false alarm") and phonetom (a portmanteau of phone ...

  5. Does staring at screens ruin your eyes? - AOL

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    We've all grown up thinking that sitting too close to the television is damaging to our eyes ... but that might not be the case. Technology spawns lots of confusion ... and a few affectionately ...

  6. Jorō spiders, the mysterious arachnids invading the US ...

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    The UGA researchers discovered that the Jorō spiders' ability to remain so calm under stress, with the arachnids even staying still for hours, stems from a rare freezing response previously ...

  7. Auditory hallucination - Wikipedia

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    An auditory hallucination, or paracusia, [ 1] is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus. While experiencing an auditory hallucination, the affected person hears a sound or sounds that did not come from the natural environment. A common form of auditory hallucination involves hearing one or more voices ...

  8. Why Republicans Are Wearing Fake Ear Bandages - AOL

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    Jackson told the New York Times that “the dressing bulked up a bit because you need a bit of absorbent. You don’t want to be walking around with bloody gauze on his ear.”. Donald Trump ...

  9. Suzi Quatro - Wikipedia

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    Susan Kay Quatro [1] (born June 3, 1950) [2] is an American singer, bass guitarist, songwriter and actor. In the 1970s, she scored a string of singles that found success in Europe and Australia, with both "Can the Can" (1973) and "Devil Gate Drive" (1974) reaching No. 1 in several countries.