And two months before his nomination to be FDA commissioner, Marty Makary published an entire book about the perils of medical groupthink. Health Department Press Secretary Emily Hilliard told me via ...

Another unexpected aspect of the school’s educational system was the requirement that students who had failed their weekly test (with a pass mark being 50 percent) must attend a 30-minute catch-up ...

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Perhaps nowhere is this more clear than when it comes to conspiracy theories: Many people believe that you can’t talk conspiracists out of their beliefs. But that’s not necessarily true. It turns out ...

A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same ...

Ross's tactics have drawn the attention of those who study psychology and a branch of maths called game theory ...

Creativity, our innate ability to generate new, diverse, and pertinent ideas, is universally recognized as a factor crucial ...

Like clockwork, every few years viral relationship “tests” or “theories” will resurface online, prompting renewed discourse ...

As a tech expert, I have long been fascinated by how narratives shape behaviour, especially when controversy collides with ...

At the heart of The Traitors is theory of mind. This is our ability to guess what others are thinking. In normal life, it ...

Navigating the labyrinth of conspiracy theories is like wandering through a hall of mirrors—distorted reflections of reality vary widely in their plausibility and strangeness. Some theories entertain ...