Do some people spot misinformation more easily than others?

In a study just published on PLOS, an open science publisher, researchers have found that the biggest predictor is a "Need for Cognition" which is how much people enjoy thinking hard. People who scored highly for this trait were far more l...

We all know that "Grit is Good". But what about "Flit"?

When Angela Duckworth published 'Grit' nearly a decade ago, I'm not sure that she expected us to pick it up and run with it like we have. It's almost as if grit has become the singular secret sauce to success. You just need to stick with stuff. ...

"It is fair to say that I – along with 10% to 40% of the general population – am noise-sensitive, meaning that I feel more upset and disturbed by noise than the average person.

It would be easy to dismiss noise sensitivity as a personality flaw, a symptom of generally being belligerent, whiny, and...

"The brain is not purely a cognition machine, but an object sculpted by evolution — and therefore constrained by the tight energy budget of a biological system.

Thinking may make you feel tired, then, not because you are out of energy, but because you have evolved to preserve resources.

This stu...

This is a fascinating lens on Trump’s rise to power.  In this academic article, Dan McAdams draws on evolutionary psychology to compare him to a chimpanzee alpha in the way that he commands attention through dominance rather than expertise.

The argument is that Trump isn't winning followers through...