(CNN) — When she goes to the grocery store, Lilianna Wilde will sometimes go for the shopping cart from which everyone else steers clear, the sad-looking one with the squeaky wheel. When she puts the ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Vargas Saenz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

For most of my life, I’ve not really believed in magic. I’ve been more of a suspicious observer of the inexplicable. The analytical mind can sometimes placate itself with the reasoning that one ...

Humans perceive aesthetic beauty in inanimate objects partly because the brain is highly attuned to patterns. The visual system is especially sensitive to symmetry and proportion. When a form is ...