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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...

Dehumanized by Design: Empathy in an Automated World

A world driven by metrics and AI requires leaders to balance the quantifiable wi...

How to Prevent Parents' Pipes From Bursting

Parental burnout is rising under financial and emotional pressures. Learn how su...

Is Weight Loss Medication a Catalyst for Divorce?

A recent investigation from the New York Times has emphasized the way that relat...

You Also Married Their Mental Illness

When one spouse has a mental illness, the mental health of the other spouse is n...

Working Together on Jealousy

Are you in a relationship where your partner struggles with jealousy? Using thes...

The Rise of Cosmetic Surgery in the Social Media Era

Social media’s perpetuation of unrealistic beauty standards fuels cosmetic surge...

Perfecting the Art of Psychological Ju-Jitsu

The key to responding to difficult thoughts and emotions lies not in struggling ...

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...

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...

Moral resilience

Nurses experience deep suffering when they can’t act according to their moral co...

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...