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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-1585050901  Do 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/s13423-017-1338-0  Martins, 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/eny046 Wiseman, R. (1995). The megalab truth test. Nature, 373(6513), 391–391. https://doi.org/10.1038/373391a0  Kraus, M. W. (2017). Voice-only communication enhances empathic accuracy. American Psychologist, 72(7), 644–654. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000147  Kret, 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.2012.00110  Mai, 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.0019903  Humans 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.php  Strauss, 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/54536  Subscribe 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  See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.