How Halfalogues Manipulate Your –
ORDER BRAINCRAFT MERCH! ?https://store.dftba.com/collections/braincraft SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! http://ow.ly/rt5IE A halfalogue is that distracting half-of-a-conversation that you...
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Hey! So there’s something I’ve been noticing in my own behaviour. When I’m on the train or bus or at a cafe and I hear half of a conversation it drives me crazy. “Did you hear… yeah Matt said it’s embargoed until next week… ...Alright alright I’m on my way to the airport…” So, why is that? Now there’s something about hearing a one-sided conversation like this that makes us intensely curious. Well, this is actually called a halfalogue. Halfalogues are a fascinating window to how our brains work – we have this desire to fill in the blanks. We experience a sudden urge of curiosity when we feel a gap between what we know and what we want to know. This is called the information gap. When we get information but just a small part of it, we c...
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Hey! So there’s something I’ve been noticing in my own behaviour. When I’m on the train or bus or at a cafe and I hear half of a conversation it drives me crazy. “Did you hear… yeah Matt said it’s embargoed until next week… ...Alright alright I’m on my way to the airport…” So, why is that? Now there’s something about hearing a one-sided conversation like this that makes us intensely curious. Well, this is actually called a halfalogue. Halfalogues are a fascinating window to how our brains work – we have this desire to fill in the blanks. We experience a sudden urge of curiosity when we feel a gap between what we know and what we want to know. This is called the information gap. When we get information but just a small part of it, we c...
