Skepticism sells well at retail but not at wholesale. Retail skeptics can doubt everything from a weather report to the resurrection, but evidence that leads to truth may dissolve their doubt. Whole ...

The Prisoner's Dilemma, from game theory, illustrates why two rational individuals may fail to cooperate even when it serves their best interests. In a classical example, two criminals are arrested ...

Humans are animals. While we like to think we're captains of our destiny, we're far more driven by instinct than we know. In many ways, we’re just glorified apes, even in business. For over a century, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Logic doesn’t come easily to humans, but it is possible to go beyond your gut reactions – if you practise We like to think of ourselves as rational and logical creatures. And so we can be – but not ...

Rationality, logic, and various cognitive strategies may be useful in a variety of situations in life, but they don’t offer much clarity in terms of how to engage with the deepest aspects of one’s ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Anthony Gottlieb RATIONALITY What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters By Steven Pinker ...

But where does that leave logic? Perhaps a bigger challenge than making room for emotions in the workplace is knowing how to keep them in balance with rational thinking. If we can get that formula ...

The world seems awash with irrationality, evident in anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, and political conspirators. What is to be done? Steven Pinker’s spirited, amusing, and lucid new book argues ...

Suppose you toss a coin and get four heads in a row – what do you think will come up on the fifth toss? Many of us have a gut feeling that a tails is due. This feeling, called the Gambler’s Fallacy, ...