Bare-knuckled brawlers sometimes have to fight to be seen. College students chasing a person across campus frequently don’t notice two guys beating up a lone victim in plain sight, a new set of experiments finds.
WHAT FIGHT Nearly half of students giving chase to an individual in daylight as part of a research study didn’t notice a staged fight along the way.
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