Why Our World is So Riveting
During a competitive basketball game, what keeps us glued to the television screen? Why are we struck by the beautiful mountain view from a cabin?
We may feel that our answers to these questions are highly personal, but science increasingly shows that the things we find compelling share many similarities at their core. Those riveting qualities include such things as incongruity, patterns and people.
In his new book Riveted, Jim Davies reveals the evolutionary underpinnings that drive us to be attracted to, or repelled by, things in our world.
Here, seven quirks of our brains that explain what rivets us, and why.
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