I always feel amused (when I don’t feel annoyed) by therapists of one sort or another telling people to “trust their instincts.” The truth is, people should not trust their instincts-- if instincts ...

Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the imagination. As the philosopher Stephen Asma and the actor Paul Giamatti pointed out in an essay in March, Plato gave the impression that imagination is a ...

You’re agitated by the sound of a mosquito buzzing around your head. The buzzing stops. You feel the tiny pinprick and locate the target. Whack! It’s over. It’s a simple sequence, but it demands ...

Deception is defined as “a message knowingly transmitted by a sender to foster a false belief or conclusion by the receiver’’ (Buller & Burgoon, 1998, p. 381). Therefore, deceptive messages aim to ...

You're agitated by the sound of a mosquito buzzing around your head. The buzzing stops. You feel the tiny pinprick and locate the target. Whack! It's over. It's a simple sequence, but it demands ...