In recent years I have become more interested in the psychology of how people respond to weather information. Last month, severe storms moved through North Georgia. Trees were down all over the place, ...

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Logical fallacies are mistakes in arguments. For example, if someone says that something is better solely because it is more "natural," this is the appeal to nature fallacy. If someone presents two ...

Gambler’s fallacy is a common cognitive bias that affects decision-making, especially in areas like gambling, investing, and trading. In this article, we’ll strive to break things down by giving you a ...

Innovations like sewing machines or word processors didn’t lead to mass unemployment. Instead, they changed jobs and spawned new businesses.

You research and pick a stock that you believe will rise. It does exactly that. Then, just as suddenly, it starts falling. You hold on, certain the trend will reverse. It does not. The stock keeps ...

Six hundred students of the London secondary schools today heard eminent authorities on racial and religious questions attack Nazi racial theories. Concluding a three-day course sponsored by the ...