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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Are You Missing Guorillas?

The joy of doing science is when we discover things that are like surprising and counter intuitive about how our own minds work. And you're more likely to be surprised about processes in the mind that we don't have conscious access to. This is my colleague, bryanshol he's a professor of psychology and cognitove science here at yale. Bryan studies the surprising limits of our attentional abilities. We assume that the mere act of looking at something means we'll be able to perceive it. But one of the most shocking discoveries of this research is that that is not true....

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