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Why your brain never runs out of problems to find

  • Written by David Levari, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology, Harvard University
Why do people constantly 'move the goalposts' when making judgments? JoeNattapon/Shutterstock.com

Why do many problems in life seem to stubbornly stick around, no matter how hard people work to fix them? It turns out that a quirk in the way human brains process information means that when something becomes rare, we sometimes see it in more places...

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