why do people act.... different during full moon?

People do not act differently during any moon. This is a popular superstition in the west, based on a silly mythology about ware wolves from Europe. There is no affect on our brains by any object in space.

What is most likely happening is you are expecting people to act weird so you are paying more close attention to their actions than usual (this depends on what you consider "weird", everyone has their own definition). It's bias on your part because you have this myth in the back of your thinking so you sort of want it to be true (it's called confirmation bias).

It's very normal for us to think this way but there is no evidence to support the claim so smart people would stop believing in them.

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For some people, its an excuse to act differently ("it must have been the full moon that made me do it") so they don't have to take responsibility.

Or it could be that people notice these odd behaviors in others more during a full moon. Scientific studies and statistical analysis show that there is no actual correlation between the full moon and things like crime or births.

Well it does and I have seen it working on elderly in nursing homes. You could tell when a full moon was getting full and when it went out by the amount of nocturnal activity they would do. It is weird but after repeated occurrences I can say that it is true people are influenced by the Moon.

Why? That is debated. I think the best answer is that people are affected by the tidal fluctuations that the Moon has in producing High Tides the closer it becomes full and since our bodies are over 95 percent water it tends to reason that it affects us in some biological way. Yet the very word 'lunacy" comes from "lunar". So down through history stories have been propagated even fanciful about "Full Moons".

Although there are plenty of stories about altered behaviour during periods of the full Moon, statistically speaking this is actually not true:-

- no change in the crime rate (committed or detected)

- no change in the murder rate

- no change in the suicide rate

- no change in the rate of admissions to mental institutions

- no change in the motor vehicle accident rate

- no change in the number of admissions to hospital Accident and Emergency departments

Nothing. This is backed up by numerous studies by all sorts of organisations from Pplice Departments, University Psychology Departments, Insurance companies and many others.

The only change that takes places is that during a full moon people start imagining that things change

If this is a coincidence it is one that happens every month. I can guess that a certain day will be a full moon without any previous knowledge. Make your own opinion. Science can not explain our brain and how it works.

How about this. How are able to sense that you are about to fall and catch yourself. Science can not explain that.

Just because Science can not prove or disprove something does not mean it is not real.

They don't.

This is a commonly held belief, but it has no basis in fact. No one has ever found any actual evidence that people behave differently depending on the phase of the Moon, and there is no known physical process by which this could occur.

The moon has a lot of influence on earth organisms, but as to people acting differently, I don't think so

They don't. The "lunar effect" is bunk. You're probably just noticing what you think is odd behaviour to confirm a presupposed impression. You're also making the statistical error of not counting this coincident "odd behaviour" relative to non-coincident occurrences of "odd behaviour". For that matter, you're also casting a pretty broad net with your definition of "odd behaviour", such that it will probably always be occurring.

The full moon messes with gravity on Earth and that causes some people to act out

Because they are wolves...