Happy brooding Batman Day! An interview with climber Sam McIlwaine explores how we find success by failing toward our goals, ...

At least four disasters have changed the modern world. Our response often made them far worse than they had to be. Will we ...

"Probably the view that most a priori philosophy is a complete waste of time. Take all the metaphysical stuff on the nature ...

Backtesting works for habits and stress by revealing early triggers and off-ramps. Backtesting is a technique used to test a ...

Psychologist Albert Bandura believed people learn new behaviors by observing others, not through instruction or logic.

Reciprocal empathy—the ability to step into each other’s shoes, understand each other’s emotions, and validate each other’s ...

The Japanese character for ma (間), for space, gap, interval, or pause, combines the character for “gate” (門) with “sun” below ...

At my 15-year reunion, someone told me I should have been a statistic. Here’s what that moment taught me about resilience and ...

Happiness exists, but not as a permanent state or worthy goal. Stop asking, "Am I happy?" and start asking, "Am I living well ...

Most of us will not let an AI help with our shopping, yet we will ask it about our health and believe it. Why trust a machine ...

Studies shed light on how people judge whether a person is heroic. Brave and selfless? Check. Patriotic and respectable? Maybe. Judgments are in part shaped by cultural values.

People often misjudge a person's job by relying on descriptive traits while ignoring base rate probabilities. Success stories focusing on the "winner" miss how rare it is to get there. Major life ...