The vagaries of human memory are notorious. A friend insists you were at your 15th class reunion when you know it was your 10th. You disti...

Think about race. What comes to mind? If you’re like most people, you think of White (Caucasian), Black (Negroid), and Asian (Mongoloid). M...

Yesterday I was out in the yard with my cat, and watched her lift her nose to the wind. She was reading the scents of our neighborhood in a ...

The book version of We Are ALL Innocent by Reason of Insanity begins with an example of a common delusion in our culture : the belief that...

This week presented an excellent example of delusional thinking in action: the U.S. Presidential election. Many Republican strategists and c...

In his bestseller  Thinking Fast and Slow , Daniel Kahneman discusses many common cognitive and decision-making errors. One that I’m certain...