Imagine you’re an art thief

And other things from the interface of science and art

Imagine you’re an art thief. That was the prompt for a research study in which people had to navigate a museum in a computer game to try to find the most expensive art.

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When they were told to imagine that they were in the middle of carrying out the heist, they located more of the expensive art in the game. But when they w…