How Neuroscience Can Address Police Racial Profiling
The deliberate murders of white police officers in Baton Rouge and Dallas are terrible acts of lawless revenge for earlier shootings of apparently innocent...
A Pastor Walks Into a Room Full of Atheists
How surprised would you be to learn that a United Methodist Minister was part of a group that was almost entirely made up of...
How To Protect Yourself From False Beliefs
Kanisha grew up in a Democratic household in Memphis, Tennessee. As far as she remembers, her family and friends always supported leftist candidates. She...
How To Avoid Impulsive Temptations
Imagine that every day in your office, there is a lady that drives a small basket of cakes, with your favourite chocolate donuts. In...
Is Spirituality Irrational?
Spirituality and rationality seem completely opposed. But are they really?
To get at this question, let's start with a little thought experiment. Consider the following...
Video: 4 Strategies to Protect Yourself From Thinking Errors
Dr. Hal Arkes
Our minds are wired to make irrational decisions and commit a wide variety of thinking errors, called cognitive biases by scholars. Yet...
Religious and Rational?
“Wisdom shouts in the street; in the public square she raises her voice.”
Proverbs 1:20 Common English Bible
The Biblical book of Proverbs is full of...
How To Advance Rational Thinking In Your Community
Why don’t they teach this in high school?!? Or even college, for that matter. That’s the reaction that my wife and I had after...
How Sure Are You About Your Memories?
How good is your memory? Can you remember what you had for breakfast yesterday? Can you remember the second happiest moment in your life?...
The Easiest Trick to Breaking Out of Wrong Ideas
Right now you have something within your reach with an almost magical ability to break out of wrong ideas. You can use it to...