Psychology professor Daniel Kahneman recently passed away. His most famous book, Thinking Fast and Slow, discusses how we have two methods of thinking — one based on immediate reactions and instinct, ...

Melinda Fouts, Ph.D., of Success Starts With You, author of Cognitive Enlightenment and awarded Top International Coach 2020 by the IAOTP. Let’s say you are having a conversation and before you know ...

Your brain evolved to react quickly. But sometimes that lightning-fast intuition can lead you straight off a ladder, or worse ...

The brain is wired for shortcuts and speed, not always for accuracy. It’s not a flaw; it’s just nature’s way of helping us survive. However, the errors in our thinking, also known as cognitive biases, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision making, died Wednesday at the age of 90.

When most people think about trauma, they think about unexpected, awful events within a defined time frame. Very fast traumas can be instant, such as getting hit by lightning or a head-on collision.

We all know that someone with a high intelligence quotient or IQ is smart. The whole idea of an IQ test is to measure how innately intelligent someone is–to get a sense of their mental capability or ...

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