There may be a psychological reason why some people aren’t just wrong in an argument — they’re confidently wrong. ...Todd Rogers, a behavioral scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, ...

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Nobel Prize-winning economist, professor, and popular New York Times opinion writer Paul Krugman on Monday published, “Trump ...

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We talk to Cristina Gonzalez, a doctor at New York University, who runs a lab that uses simulations to help medical ...

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Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical ...

Behavioural science is brilliant because you learn about a study from the 1930s and it’s still relevant today. That human ...

Picture a New Yorker-style cartoon of a caveman with a briefcase and fedora. According to evolutionary psychology, we moderns ...

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