Articles for tag: BrainScience, Curiosity, Mindset, psychology

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Why Do We Seek Novelty?

Suhail Ahmed

  There’s a reason you click on the strange headline, try the unfamiliar café, or feel a jolt of excitement when a flight deal to somewhere you can barely pronounce pops up in your feed. Something in us leans toward the new, even when the familiar is safer, cheaper, or easier. For decades, psychologists called ...

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Which Animal Embodies the Curiosity of Gemini?

Suhail Ahmed

  Ask any field biologist about curiosity and you’ll get a knowing smile – because in the wild, questions are survival tools. Gemini’s restless, twin-track energy shows up not in myth but in animals that can’t stop checking, probing, and trying the next thing. The mystery is which creature wears that badge best: the stealthy ...