Skeptophilia

I find human behavior absolutely baffling a lot of the time. I've spent a significant fraction of my life thinking, "Why did (s)he ...

When I was in my twenties, my parents got into watching the television series Cops . Me, I never could see the draw.  The plot was the same ...

A topic I covered in my intro to biology classes was the phenomenon of pheromones . A pheromone is a chemical secreted by one individual tha...

Valentine's Day was a couple of days ago, and over a nice dinner I fixed for my sweetheart, we were talking about the perplexing questio...

While I don't want to excuse mental laziness, I think it's understandable sometimes if laypeople come to the conclusion that for eve...

Given the right context, people tend to be cooperative. That's the gist of a study out of the University of Texas - Austin this week, ...

One of the hallmarks of the human condition is curiosity.  We spend a lot of our early years learning by exploring, by trial-and-error, so i...

Yesterday I ran into a study in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin  that strikes me as being substantially correct even ...

It's astonishing and humbling how hard it is to see bias when you're inside it. This comes up in matters of privilege.  As a middl...