Why We Get Warning Fatigue, Prehistoric Monkeys Crossed the Atlantic on Rafts, and Why New Lovebirds Feel So Familiar

Learn about a bias in your brain that makes you ignore security warnings; why people who fall in love feel like they’ve known each other for years; and a crew of prehistoric monkeys that crossed the Atlantic Ocean on rafts.

You ignore more than just your browser security warnings because of "warning fatigue" by Grant Currin

• Waugh, R. (2013, July 15). “Warning fatigue” means browser users ignore up to 70% of security alerts | WeLiveSecurity. WeLiveSecurity. https://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/07/15/warning-fatigue-means-browser-users-ignore-up-to-70-of-security-alerts/
• Ancker, J. S., Edwards, A., Nosal, S., Hauser, D., Mauer, E., & Kaushal, R. (2017). Effects of workload, work complexity, and repeated alerts on alert fatigue in a clinical decision support system. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0430-8
• Mackie, B. (2014). Warning fatigue : Insights from the Australian Bushfire Context. Canterbury.ac.nz. https://doi.org/http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9029

Why do people in love feel like they've known each other for years? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Jonathan)

• Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., & Griffin, D. W. (1996). The self-fulfilling nature of positive illusions in romantic relationships: Love is not blind, but prescient. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(6), 1155–1180. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.71.6.1155
• Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., & Griffin, D. W. (1996). The benefits of positive illusions: Idealization and the construction of satisfaction in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(1), 79–98. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.70.1.79
• Parkinson, C., Kleinbaum, A. M., & Wheatley, T. (2018). Similar neural responses predict friendship. Nature Communications, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02722-7
• Why You Click with Certain People. (2018). Greater Good. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_you_click_with_certain_people

Crew of prehistoric monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America by Grant Currin

• Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa. (2020). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200409141528.htm
• Isabelle Catherine Winder, & Shaw, V. (2020, April 9). Monkey teeth fossils hint several extinct species crossed the Atlantic. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/monkey-teeth-fossils-hint-several-extinct-species-crossed-the-atlantic-135961
• Seiffert, E. R., Tejedor, M. F., Fleagle, J. G., Novo, N. M., Cornejo, F. M., Bond, M., de Vries, D., & Campbell, K. E. (2020). A parapithecid stem anthropoid of African origin in the Paleogene of South America. Science, 368(6487), 194–197. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba1135

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