Fact #1 – we use completely different lenses to judge others’ actions versus our own. Fact #2 – the way we do this creates consistently biased expectations about others Fact #3 – understanding this ...

This post is in response to The Ghost of Situationism and Why Personality Is Not a Myth By Scott A. McGreal MSc. This article is part 1 of 2. Every year, the Edge asks many different scientists to ...

Have you ever thought to yourself, “He is an anxious guy," or "she seems kind of edgy?” As human beings, one of the most instinctive things we do is make judgments about people we meet. But in doing ...

This article originally appeared in Science of Us. Generally speaking, when you’re trying to understand a news event through a behavioral-science lens, it’s not a good idea to roll up, loudly invoke ...

I agree with all of Arthur Levine's conclusions in "Digital Students, Industrial-Era Universities." Where Levine gets it wrong is to assume that this shift is being driven by the demand of digital ...

One day, after being sent home on a mandatory furlough, a group of employees at the Arizona Department of Security were being paid overtime to catch up on their backlog. “Only in government,” State ...

Years of research suggests that we tend to hold other people to different standards than we hold ourselves. For example: Your coworker turns in a project late, and you assume he's a slacker. The next ...

Is Entitlement Among Millennials Overblown? New research suggests we may be exaggerating the generation gap in the workplace. The Fundamental Attribution Error: It’s the Situation, Not the Person ...

I've found myself lately reading a number of books about how humans think - Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Switch by Chip and Dan Heath, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, The Righteous Mind ...