This week on Hidden Brain: coincidences. Why they're not quite as magical as they seem, and the psychological reasons we can't help but search for meaning in them anyway.

Paying attention to coincidences, Osman and Johansen say, is an essential part of how humans make sense of the world. We rely constantly on our understanding of cause and effect to survive.

Coincidences were, to him, meaningful events that couldn’t be explained by cause and effect, which, so far so good, but he also thought that there was another force, outside of causality, which ...

Top 10s lists rare coincidences so unbelievable, they seem made up. Army reveals the real cost of Trump’s birthday parade in ...

C. Coincidences without a conscious human intention--they seem to exist without human involvement in making them happen Cosmic Coincidences: Carbon-based life on Earth, depends on a narrow range ...

Some images don’t just catch your eye—they challenge your perception. A strange alignment, a surreal reflection, or an unexpected overlap can create a scene that looks too perfect to be ...

Jonathan Higbee’s series Coincidences is an exercise in spotting the surreal, impossibly perfect serendipity of everyday life in New York City daily life. Sometimes, Higbee’s subjects align ...

You think coincidences may have something to do with you, but they don’t. When God is called in to explain coincidences, you are the recipient of divine grace.

Disturbing Digital Coincidences By Don Steinberg March 18, 2019 Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez ...

RECENTLY the recording of coincidences between Geiger counters has become of considerable interest, and several experimental arrangements have been described for this purpose.1 A common property ...