How we transition into the new year

Our brains are always on the lookout for joining up the dotsYou may have woken up today feeling a little more wobbly than usual, not just from last night’s festivities, but about what 2017 holds. We can’t help our memories of last year colouring our expectations of the next. We’re wired that way.We know this from the Colour Phi experiment in 1976, where respondents were shown a blue dot at the top left hand corner of a screen followed soon after by a red dot at the bottom right