A recent study published in the Archive for the Psychology of Religion suggests that feeling a deep, spiritual connection to a specific physical location can act as a protective shield for a person’s ...

Sports talent scouts' decisions are influenced by various common cognitive biases that can affect their work and undermine team success, a paper published in the International Review of Sport and ...

As many as 75% of the errors that occur in internal medicine are tied to flawed clinical reasoning, a study found. In this context, experts stress that identifying and teaching cognitive biases is ...

Explore the anchor effect in marketing and negotiations. Learn how initial numbers influence your decisions. Examples include popcorn pricing at movies and salary negotiations. Trump reacts to Pretti ...

Every year, the Bird Alliance of Oregon aims to observe and record trends in bird populations over time in the Portland area. A man was shot and killed following an argument with another man at a ...

When Arkansas introduced mandatory statewide literacy training several years ago, I didn’t expect much. Like many teachers, I assumed I’d click through this long series of videos, complete the quiz, ...

"[T]his tactic forces defendants into a no-win situation: to counter the anchoring effect of the plaintiff’s number, they must offer a figure of their own—despite maintaining that there’s no liability ...

Enabling people to set personal carbon budgets may help them to track and reduce their carbon footprint over time. In this study, we investigated ways to encourage a representative sample of the UK ...

This satellite image, taken on Wednesday, shows two tropical waves that could develop along parallel tracks -- or potentially combine -- in the Atlantic. NASA GOES Satellite After an unseasonably long ...

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