Skeptophilia

Regular readers of this blog know that besides my obvious hat of Skepticism Blogger, I also wear a second one, which is Fiction Writer.  And...

Spurred by yesterday's post, about our capacity for forming emotional bonds with fictional characters, a friend asked me who my favorite...

I learned a new term yesterday: parasocial relationship. It means "a strong, one-sided social bond with a fictional character or celebr...

Despite my being immersed for years in the Wild World of Woo-Woo, I still occasionally run across things that I'd never heard of.  Some ...

If you needed any further evidence that novelists really are a breed apart, consider the study that was carried out by some researchers at D...

As a fiction writer, I am constantly working to make sure my writing is engaging.  What writers want, after all, is to keep readers turning ...

Regular readers of this blog know that besides my two hats of Skepticism Blogger and High School Science Teacher, I also wear a third one, w...

I find it curious how certain most of us are of our beliefs.  We all like to think of ourselves as basing our views of the world in reality;...