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  2. Eureka effect - Wikipedia

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    Research on the Aha! moment dates back more than 100 years, to the Gestalt psychologists' first experiments on chimpanzee cognition. [9] In his 1921 book, [9] Wolfgang Köhler described the first instance of insightful thinking in animals: One of his chimpanzees, Sultan, was presented with the task of reaching a banana that had been strung up high on the ceiling so that it was impossible to ...

  3. Epiphany (feeling) - Wikipedia

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    An epiphany (from the ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια, epiphanea, "manifestation, striking appearance") is an experience of a sudden and striking realization.Generally the term is used to describe a scientific breakthrough or a religious or philosophical discovery, but it can apply in any situation in which an enlightening realization allows a problem or situation to be understood from a new ...

  4. Counterfactual thinking - Wikipedia

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    Counterfactual thinking is a concept in psychology that involves the human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred; something that is contrary to what actually happened.

  5. 30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To ... - AOL

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    Image credits: DrDreidel82 #2. The love some people have for watching sports. To edit/elaborate, I went to a Big 10 school. I honestly had no idea how much of a religion sports were to people when ...

  6. Opinion - Want to understand what just happened? Try talking ...

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    The only way to learn about what happened on Tuesday is to talk to people on the other side. And the only question is whether we can find the grace — and the courage — to do it.

  7. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1259 on Friday, November 29 ...

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    This word refers to a large, dark-brown animal that lives in (or around) African rivers. They are renowned for their barrel-shaped bodies, enormous heads and short legs.

  8. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Korean - 해가 서쪽에서 뜨겠다(haega seojjogeseo teugeta) means “Sun might rise from the West”, commonly used as a response to a news that something improbable happened. Lombard ( Milanese dialect) – quand pìssen i òch ("when the geese will piss"), refers to the fact that geese do not urinate.

  9. Turning tragedy into purpose: Gabby Petito’s father advocates ...

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    “What Mr. Petito has done for my family, it means a lot to me,” Robinson said. “Because he had a tragedy and it’s amazing when a person can take a tragedy and make something big out of it ...