Explorations in Personality

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Apophenia, or seeing too much meaning

Apophenia, or seeing too much meaning

Individual differences in pattern detection

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W. Keith Campbell
Mar 22, 2025
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I’m really good at abstracting meaning from piles of data. I can usually find a connection, a story, a pattern, or a theory that makes all the pieces come together and make sense. Unfortunately, I’m …

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