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  2. Apophenia - Wikipedia

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    A common example is the perception of a face within an inanimate object—the headlights and grill of an automobile may appear to be "grinning". People around the world see the "Man in the Moon". [8] People sometimes see the face of a religious figure in a piece of toast or in the grain of a piece of wood.

  3. Pareidolia - Wikipedia

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    Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...

  4. Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.

  5. Apathy - Wikipedia

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    People with severe apathy tend to have a lower quality of life and are at a higher risk for mortality and early institutionalization. [2] They may also exhibit insensibility or sluggishness . [ 4 ] In positive psychology , apathy is described as a result of the individuals' feeling they do not possess the level of skill required to confront a ...

  6. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    For example, the additive experience of seeing color when looking at graphemes might be due to cross-activation of the grapheme-recognition area and the color area called V4 (see figure). [48] This is supported by the fact that grapheme–color synesthetes can identify the color of a grapheme in their peripheral vision even when they cannot ...

  7. Aphantasia - Wikipedia

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    In 2021, a study found that people with aphantasia have slower reaction times than people without aphantasia in a visual search task in which they were presented with a target and a distractor. But both groups saw a similar reduction in reaction time when primed with the color of the target compared to if primed with the color of the distractor ...

  8. Derealization - Wikipedia

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    It may feel as if the person is viewing their immediate surroundings through VR glasses, through glass, or on a movie screen. Individuals may report that what they see lacks vividness and emotional coloring. [8] Emotional response to visual recognition of loved ones may be significantly reduced. Feelings of déjà vu or jamais vu are common ...

  9. Qualia - Wikipedia

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    Another way of defining qualia is as "raw feels". A raw feel is a perception in and of itself, considered entirely in isolation from any effect it might have on behavior and behavioral disposition. [9] In contrast, a cooked feel is that perception seen in terms of its effects. For example, the perception of the taste of wine is an ineffable ...