Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. We’ve all felt it at some point or another—the eerie feeling of ...

You walk into a room and suddenly your brain goes fuzzy with an overwhelming wave of familiarity--although this is a totally new experience. Like something out of a sci-fi plot, it almost seems as if ...

Have you ever found yourself in a moment so uncannily familiar that it sends shivers down your spine? That eerie feeling of being sure you’ve experienced something before, even when logic insists ...

Memory researchers have a new theory on why déjà vu is accompanied not only by feelings of prediction, but also an 'I knew that was going to happen' feeling. For many, déjà vu is just a fleeting, ...

Anne Cleary is a member of the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives. Starting in the late 1800s, many theories began to emerge regarding what might cause déjà vu, which means ...

It’s odd, isn’t it? That wistful sense of having been somewhere before, yet knowing full well that this is your first visit. Déjà vu is familiar to virtually all of us, but what exactly is it? Share ...

Have you ever had the sense that you’ve done something or gone through a new situation before? Does it seem like you know what’s going to happen next? That feeling is often described as déjà vu, which ...