This randomized clinical trial investigates whether providing primary care physicians (PCPs) with 1 vs 2 or more appropriate treatment alternatives in a choice set has an effect on the odds that they ...

Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication. The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications ...

A new study on chess players explored people's overconfidence in a domain with clear measures of performance and the opportunity for people to get feedback.

A “groundbreaking” (Marc Brackett) correction to the myth that creativity is a trait that you’re born with—instead, a Yale scientist proves, creativi...

The sudden onset, rapid spread, and later surges of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in shortages of ventilators, pharmaceuticals, and other critical resources, leaving individual clinicians to make rat...

Today is publication day for a very long project; it translates the science of what comes between an idea and the finished product, to help you get from there to here.

Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice.

The humanities job market is broken, but there’s one thing we can easily fix.

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A new study of over 26,000 influential U.S. people shows that a disproportionate number of them attended Harvard University.

The exhibition, entitled “Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention and Memory,” explores the history of neuroscience and the wonders of human cognition.

Amazon.com: Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It eBook : Simons, Daniel, Chabris, Christopher: Kindle Store

To avoid being fooled, we need to become aware of the mental habits and shortcuts that make us easy to deceive.