One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.
American people whether they agree that plants create the oxygen in the air, light travels faster than sound, or you cannot make radioactive milk safe by boiling it, you will get double-digit disagree...
People have a basic desire to feel good about themselves, and we therefore have a tendency to be unconsciously biased in favor of traits similiar to our won, even such seemingly meaningless traits as...
As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer.
When we are in the grasp of illusion – or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea – instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologist...
Your amicable words mean nothing if your body seems to be saying something different. —JAMES BORG
A thousand years without a bath.
It is always heartening when a fundamentalist of any religion professes a belief in evolution,
In 1932, after nineteen years of research, Bartlett published his results.
For while anyone can sit back and point to the bottom line as justification, assessing instead a person's actual knowledge and actual ability takes confidence, thought, good judgement, and, well, guts...
Most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
Volatile green lion in the central salt of Venus and distill. This spirit is the green lion the blood of the green lion Venus, the Babylonian Dragon that kills everything with its poison, but conquere...
Do we, like the flight instructors, believe that harsh criticism improves our children’s behavior or our employees’ performance?
Probability is the very guide of life
Regulations allow for up to ten insect fragments per thirty-one-gram serving.
When chance is involved, people’s thought processes are often seriously flawed.
Paleolithic humans migrated often, and, like my teenagers, they followed the food.
You’re wasting your time, he said. You don’t learn how to discover things by reading books on it. And psychology is a bunch of bullshit.
Though you are unaware of it, when you run cool wine over your tongue, you don’t just taste its chemical composition; you also taste its price.
Pauli turned to the audience and argued, Yes, my theory is crazy enough! Then Bohr insisted, No, your theory is not crazy enough!
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