Facts-Chology

Probability can be a mind-blowing thing. Gather 23 people in a room and chances are two of them will share a birthday. Gather 60 and it's almost a guarantee. But with 365 days in a year, how does that work?

Find out on today's episode on Facts-Chology!

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Sources:

https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/

http://hssmath.blogspot.com/2016/03/birthday-paradox.html

https://www.rd.com/article/september-popular-birth-month/

https://www.rd.com/article/why-october-babies-more-likely-live-100/

A news article said you can hypnotize chicken, turns out it's more like playing dead than being in hypnosis. I wonder... what other animals can play dead?
Find out some of them on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-hypnotize-chicken-180949940/#:~:text=Here's%20how%20you%20do%20it,a%20finger%2C%20chalk%20or%20whatever.&text=To%20de%2Dhypnotize%20the%20chicken,tries%20to%20awaken%20the%20bird.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jsap.12549#jsap12549-bib-0041

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2424542?seq=1

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/sci-tech/2017-11-22-smell-of-death-tested-as-shark-repellent/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/great-white-sharks-flee-killer-whales/587563/

There's an experiment sometimes said conducted by Harvard scientist that tells us about human behavior using monkeys, a ladder, a banana, and a lot of cold water.

The only problem is, the experiment never happened. Find out the real study and what the fake study gets wrong on today's episode of Facts-Chology.

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Sources

https://erikbuys.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/cultural-acquisition-of-a-specific-learned-response-among-rhesus-monkeys-gordon-r-stephenson.pdf

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/games-primates-play/201203/what-monkeys-can-teach-us-about-human-behavior-facts-fiction

https://workingoutloud.com/blog/the-five-monkeys-experiment-with-a-new-lesson#disqus_thread

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu

https://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-banana-story-is-rubbish/

Surprisingly doors are kind of interesting.. who would've thought? And the lack of a door in a doorway can cause an effect that will make you forget things, but why?

Find out on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources:
 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-mishaps/201205/doorways-cause-forgetting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door

https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/the-stack-effect-when-buildings-act-like-chimneys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door

Have you ever been watching a movie and a character suffers a tragic or hilarious fall yet the scream sounds exactly the same? Why are movie studios using the same person to make all their screams?
And why do we even bother screaming in the first place? I scream, you scream, we all scream... but why?

Find out this and more on today's episode of Facts-Chology on The Wilhelm Scream and Why We All Scream!

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Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming

https://time.com/3956127/scream-screaming/

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00737-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS096098221500737X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60236/where-did-wilhelm-scream-come-and-why-do-so-many-filmmakers-use-it

https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=wilhelm-scream

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

https://theswaddle.com/why-do-you-scream-in-fear/#:~:text=A%20scream%20goes%20straight%20from,into%20increased%20alertness%20and%20analysis.

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Where did clowns come from besides the little clown car that just drove by? Are they a recent thing or have they been around for much longer?
And why do some people find them scary? Does it have something to do with why we find something strange about robotic faces?

Find out these answers and more interesting facts on today's episode of Facts-Chology on Clowns and The Uncanny Valley Effect!

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Sources
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87942/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-clowns

https://listverse.com/2014/02/14/10-strange-facts-about-clowns/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/what-is-the-uncanny-valley

Episode 20 means we're talking about a movie! This week it's Back to the Future! We'll take a look at some facts surrounding the production of the movie and then we'll look at how we perceive time.

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Sources
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/10/back-to-the-future-facts-about-trilogy-future-day-eric-stoltz-video-trivia-marty-mcfly-spielberg-zemeckis

https://www.sciencealert.com/psychology-holds-clues-to-slowing-down-time-when-it-feels-like-it-s-racing-away

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-time-seem-to-speed-up-with-age/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452315117300140

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future