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    Do Masks Stunt Emotional Development? Plus: Human Ears Perk Up, Too, and Why Your Shower Curtain Clings To You

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    Learn about the "shower-curtain effect," the mystery of why your shower curtain will randomly cling to you; whether masks affect our emotional development; and why humans perk up their ears.

    No One Knows Why the Shower Curtain Will Randomly Cling to You by Joanie Faletto

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    © Warner Bros. DiscoveryLength 13 min28 August 2020ScienceFactsEducationalCultureUSAEpisodic

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    Learn about the "shower-curtain effect," the mystery of why your shower curtain will randomly cling to you; whether masks affect our emotional development; and why humans perk up their ears.

    No One Knows Why the Shower Curtain Will Randomly Cling to You by Joanie Faletto

    Why Does the Shower Curtain Move Toward the Water? (2001, July 11). Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-the-shower-curta/Inglis-Arkell, E. (2014, June 3). The Enduring Mystery of Why Your Shower Curtain Attacks You. io9. https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-enduring-mystery-of-why-your-shower-curtain-attacks-1585050901Do masks affect our emotional development? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Nate)

    Valente, D., Theurel, A., & Gentaz, E. (2017). The role of visual experience in the production of emotional facial expressions by blind people: a review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(2), 483–497. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1338-0Martins, A. T., Faísca, L., Vieira, H., & Gonçalves, G. (2019). Emotional Recognition and Empathy both in Deaf and Blind Adults. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 24(2), 119–127. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/eny046Wiseman, R. (1995). The megalab truth test. Nature, 373(6513), 391–391. https://doi.org/10.1038/373391a0Kraus, M. W. (2017). Voice-only communication enhances empathic accuracy. American Psychologist, 72(7), 644–654. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000147Kret, M. E., & de Gelder, B. (2012). Islamic Headdress Influences How Emotion is Recognized from the Eyes. Frontiers in Psychology, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00110Mai, X., Ge, Y., Tao, L., Tang, H., Liu, C., & Luo, Y.-J. (2011). Eyes Are Windows to the Chinese Soul: Evidence from the Detection of Real and Fake Smiles. PLoS ONE, 6(5), e19903. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019903Humans perk up their ears, too by Kelsey Donk

    Our animal inheritance: Humans perk up their ears, too, when they hear interesting sounds. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/su-oai070720.phpStrauss, D. J., Corona-Strauss, F. I., Schroeer, A., Philipp Flotho, Hannemann, R., & Hackley, S. A. (2020, July 3). Vestigial auriculomotor activity indicates the direction of auditory attention in humans. ELife; eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd. https://elifesciences.org/articles/54536Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY

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