A University of Michigan survey of 1,000 rural Michigan residents reveals a striking gap between perception and reality when ...

From confined spaces to cutting-edge aircraft, failures to align risk perception with reality can have catastrophic consequences. What steps can close the gap to improve safety outcomes. The gap ...

A single phrase can follow you for a lifetime. For me, it was this: Perception is reality. It was one of the first lessons drilled into me during Plebe Summer at the U.S. Naval Academy. It felt like a ...

Reality isn't what you think it is. Everyday experience suggests that our senses inform us about what’s going on in the world around us. But recent advances in cognitive neuroscience suggest that we ...

Federal assistance programs pepper conversations from kitchen tables to coffee shops, bars and social-media platforms — the latter being the most prevalent, yet least accurate of all those forums.