Humans like to study themselves in a mirror. But wild baboons, when presented with a mirror, don’t seem to recognize they’re staring at their own selves, a new study has found. For decades, ...

Daniel Povinelli was in high school when he first read about a clever experiment, published in 1970, that showed chimpanzees—but not monkeys--can recognize themselves in mirrors. "I bought into the ...

I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. I shower and do my hair and makeup in front of a vanity mirror, then get dressed with the help of my full-length mirror. I have three mirrors in my ...

When you view your right hand in a mirror, it appears as a left hand. Writing is reversed, as is the direction of any spinning object: clockwise becomes counterclockwise and vice versa. In many ways, ...

Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have found that people still find it difficult to understand how mirrors work. Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have found that people still ...

Monkey see, monkey freak out! A French photographer set up a mirror in various locations in Africa to capture wild animals’ reactions to their reflections. A gigantic gorilla began thrashing around ...