Wikipedia article of the day for December 31, 2017 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

The Wikipedia article of the day for December 31, 2017 is Birthday-number effect. The birthday-number effect is the unconscious tendency of people to prefer the numbers in the date of their birthday over other numbers. First reported in 1997 by Japanese psychologists Shinobu Kitayama and Mayumi Karasawa, the birthday-number effect has been shown to hold …