There’s actually reason to believe that humans prefer new things! Follow Us! https://twitter.com/LifeNoggin https://facebook.com/LifeNoggin Click here to see more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/lifenoggin Life Noggin is a weekly animated educational series. Whether it's science, pop culture, history or art, we explore it all and have a ton of fun doing it. Life Noggin Team: Animation by Steven Lawson Voiced by: http://youtube.com/patdoesit Produced by: http://www.IanDokie.com Written by: https://www.youtube.com/coconutcab Sources: http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(08)00381-4 http://mentalfloss.com/article/19078/why-we-new-stuff-science http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(05)00397-1?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0896627305003971%3Fshowall%3Dtrue http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/learning-by-surprise/