How is it that two people can see the same thing and have a completely different understanding of what happened? Two leaders can look at the same numbers, hear the same news or face the same challenge ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A single phrase can follow you for a lifetime. For me, it was this: Perception is reality.

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A video of a woman showing off her so-called "Polyphonic Perception" is going viral on TikTok, but some people aren't so sure that she's actually doing anything special. The idea of Polyphonic ...

(top) Reaction time vs. difference between acute deterioration risk of reference condition (prostate cancer) and various conditions. (bottom). Risk perception and spatial response are clearly related.

Reality isn't what you think it is. Everyday experience suggests that our senses inform us about what’s going on in the world around us. But recent advances in cognitive neuroscience suggest that we ...