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\nFrom the fronts of cars to weirdly human knots on trees, people see faces in the strangest places. But have you ever wondered why we see faces everywhere? It turns out there's a name for that phenomenon: pareidolia, which describes...\nFrom the fronts of cars to weirdly human knots on trees, people see faces in the strangest places. But have you ever wondered why we see faces everywhere? It turns out there's a name for that phenomenon: pareidolia, which describes humanity's ability to identify discernible images in places where there aren't any.

In attempting to understand pareidolia, researchers have proposed several scientific and behavioral explanations.\n
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2023
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faces, objects, eyes, humans, scientists, emotions, time
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