Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions ...

These universal truths form the shared foundation upon which a great deal of rigorous and robust merit-based inquiry is ...

Dogmatism is the opposite of skepticism. It is the proclivity to assert opinions as unequivocally true without taking into ...

Researchers explored the nuanced dynamics of how people balance their desire to speak out vs their fear of punishment in a ...

Since the advent of the World Wide Web in 1994, technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, with significant implications for employers and individual workers. What was dubbed a 'fourth industrial ...

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and ...

AI bias can influence how users think or feel, regardless of whether the information presented is true or false.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett rejects the efficient markets hypothesis, but still recommends low-cost index funds for most ordinary investors.

Legacy media outlets rounded out 2025 with articles recounting extreme weather events, presenting the year as one of climate chaos. They aren't reporting that 2025 was likely the year of the fewest ...

If America’s institutions want to regain the public’s trust, they’d be better off focusing on growth than on fairness.

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

Beckert's book, a sweeping 1,300-page history, synthesizes bits and pieces of the academic literature to recount the ...