One of the stories that's making the rounds right now concerns Adam Orth, a (former) Creative Director at Microsoft who caused a ruckus by cramming his foot in his Twittermouth. He did so while ...

Have you ever wondered why certain memories of your partner stand out more than others, shaping your perception of your relationship? This phenomenon can be explained by the availability heuristic, a ...

Most of us live in a world of full inboxes, shifting deadlines and a confusing array of acronyms and buzzwords. We often need heuristics (a mental shortcut or rule of thumb) and biases as a way of ...

Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist, discovered through his research that people trust those they view as experts in their sphere of influence. He documented and proved the correlation ...

In the post-pandemic era of accelerated digitization, an increasing number of business tools are driven by AI, allowing company leaders to derive better business intelligence, anticipate customer ...

Not many people know about heuristics, even though we are all affected by them. Heuristics are mental shortcuts our brains use to allow us to make quick judgments about complex situations. They are ...

Clinicians must make diagnostic treatment decisions using a large body of probabilistic information and process this information under the pressure of time and workload. The pressure of this task is ...

Investors have recently been flocking to “safe-haven” investments like U.S. treasury bonds, gold and other commodities. These assets tend to stay valuable in uncertain times. At times of geopolitical ...

It is generally well-understood that antimalware programs—the software which detects computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and other threats to your system—work by scanning files using signatures ...

Wray Herbert is thinking about your brain. He concludes that your thinking may be so ancient that you’re making more mistakes than you’d prefer. In “On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind’s ...