Skeptophilia

I've written before about the Dunning-Kruger effect , the cognitive bias that gives rise to the perception that everyone you ask will ve...

Probably most of you have had the fortunate experience of being in a situation where you were completely engaged in what you were doing.  Th...

I've written before about the Dunning-Kruger effect , the cognitive bias that gives rise to the perception that everyone you ask will v...

I first ran into David Eagleman when a student of mine loaned me his phenomenal book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain . Even cons...

One of the reasons I trust science is that I have so little trust in my own brain's ability to assess correctly the nature of reality. ...

It seems like lately, self-inquiry tests are all the rage. They range from the banal ("What Harry Potter character are you?"  ...