Skeptophilia

One of the most tragicomic moments in my life happened at my twentieth high school reunion. I was painfully shy when I was young.  I brought...

Back in 2011, author Kathryn Schulz did a phenomenal TED Talk called " On Being Wrong ."  She looks at how easy it is to slip into...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, about our unfortunate tendency to believe false claims if we hear them repeated often enough, today...

"But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have ...

In his famous dialogue Phaedrus,  Plato puts the following words in Socrates's mouth: If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfu...

One of the most difficult-to-fight biases in human nature is the sunk-cost fallacy . The idea is the more time, effort, and/or money we...

I've always been curious about why politicians spend so much time trying to make their constituencies afraid. A scared person, you wou...