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Why Do Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas?

Why do even smart people fall for scams, cults, and bad ideas? Here's how mispla...

How to Say No to Dominant Leaders

High-conflict leaders exploit cognitive biases to dominate. Science-backed strat...

Why Social Media Is Making Our Kids Miserable

Social media is selling kids unrealistic goals, leaving them anxious and lost. I...

Rebuilding Trust

Why trust is key to healthy relationships, and how we can seek to restore trust ...

A Better Alternative to Defensive Pessimism

Defensive pessimism is a strategy that is used to deal with fear and is often pa...

Bipolar I Before Lithium: What Was It Like?

Before lithium became available to treat this potentially devastating illness, b...

Boomerang! Managing Your College Kid Moving Back Home E...

When college kids move home early, it's vital you set expectations, be a good ro...

Hugging and Narcissism: A Surprising Insight

Some people love to hug other people, while others don’t. A new study sheds ligh...

An Unexpected Irony of Popular Weight-Loss Therapy

New research supports a medical irony: Weight-loss drugs that transform our appe...

Raising Future-Ready Kids

The world is changing faster than ever, and the skills our kids need to thrive a...

How to Find the Truth Where Others Cannot

In this post, I explain how a newly introduced bias--likelihood neglect bias--ca...

Why We Try to Change People—and How to Let Go

As kids, we try remaking our parents into the caregivers we need. As adults, we ...

4 More Steps for Working Effectively With Anger

These four steps can help you move from angry reactions and distress into skillf...

Elegance and hustle

How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the v...

Why vanity could be a good thing

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith agreed that vanity was all too human. But o...

Excavating Girsu

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is lik...

The waiting

Returning to the cold case of the disappearing frogs of Costa Rica, a biologist ...

The planetary fix

Despite decades of inaction we can avert the climate Hellocene and restore the a...

There are no pure cultures

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed throug...

Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me

‘We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who di...