Consider the following scenario: you are watching a movie in your living room. One of the supporting characters is played by someone who looks familiar, but you can’t quite put your finger on where ...

Most of us live in a world of full inboxes, shifting deadlines and a confusing array of acronyms and buzzwords. We often need heuristics (a mental shortcut or rule of thumb) and biases as a way of ...

One of the stories that's making the rounds right now concerns Adam Orth, a (former) Creative Director at Microsoft who caused a ruckus by cramming his foot in his Twittermouth. He did so while ...

Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist, discovered through his research that people trust those they view as experts in their sphere of influence. He documented and proved the correlation ...

Clinicians must make diagnostic treatment decisions using a large body of probabilistic information and process this information under the pressure of time and workload. The pressure of this task is ...

In the post-pandemic era of accelerated digitization, an increasing number of business tools are driven by AI, allowing company leaders to derive better business intelligence, anticipate customer ...

Think twice before you trust your gut, says Wray Herbert, author of the just-published On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits (Crown, $25). Herbert, director of science ...