MOST OF US have experienced conflicting beliefs at one time or another. For instance, you know that drinking too much alcohol is bad for your health, but you pour yourself a second glass of wine ...

We like having consistency in our worlds. It makes sense - to be the best people we can be, we like having predictability. Otherwise we would be spending our time weathering crises more than attending ...

In 1934, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern India, killing thousands and devastating several cities. Curiously, in areas that were spared the worst destruction, stories soon spread that an even ...

You’ve undoubtedly heard of the concept of cognitive dissonance, a term from social psychology that frequently makes its way into the media, including numerous references in popular movies and ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that OpenAI’s GPT-4o, one of the most advanced large language models, exhibits behavior resembling a core feature ...