On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 could be 鈥渃haracterized as a pandemic,鈥� meaning that this new disease was now spreading all over the world. One day, we will...
If the year 2020 can be thought of as a massive, uncontrolled experiment in psychology, I hope one of the takeaways is that confirmation bias is, unfortunately, alive and well. When it comes to...
鈥淚t鈥檚 not a hoax! It鈥檚 not a hoax!鈥� Dr. Moses Turkle Bility, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, told me over Zoom. And I believe him.
If you need to buy a new phone, do you look up different models and brands and compare their specifications to find the best match for your needs鈥� or do you buy what鈥檚 popular, expecting it to be...
The story of the Trojan horse is well known: the Greeks allegedly delivered to the city of Troy a massive wooden horse, which the Trojans mistook for a gift and pulled inside their city. At night,...
If you flipped a coin in the air and got five heads in a row, would you feel like tail is due? If so, congratulations! You just experienced the gambler鈥檚 fallacy.
Promising nuggets in early scientific research can quickly take hold of the public imagination and continue to spread well past their sell-by date, a lesson we are all learning the hard way during...
Thinking clearly is not just about recognizing the ways in which our brain misbehaves. Sometimes, it鈥檚 about realizing that the information we find in the world is incomplete. We all know that...
After leaving the Walter Reed Medical Center where he was treated for COVID-19, Trump told the American public, 鈥淲e have the best medicines in the world and they鈥檙e [sic] all happened very shortly....
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