When you put yourself down, your mind believes what you say—that you are inadequate, flawed, incompetent, destined to fail, ...

A few years back, I wrote a couple of pieces for this blog on how to change people’s minds, even if what they believe is categorically wrong. Cook and Lewandowsky’s (2011) debunking handbook was ...

Leadership is about pushing new ideas; it is about mobilizing and motivating people and getting them to act as a collective team. It’s about projecting commitment and expressing enthusiasm to get ...

Picture Gigi, having a chat with her boss, when the meeting takes a sharp turn. Gigi’s boss tells her that her work has been ...

Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C. After the contestant chooses, say, option B, the host reveals one of the remaining choices ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A.J. Jacobs is a journalist and author whose most recent book is “The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning.” The views ...

Students talk about learning to see beyond first impressions. They describe recognizing that people’s stories are complicated ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including “Work & Days” and “Rift Zone.” She is the editor of the anthology, “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the ...

When Daryl van Tongeren lost his beloved brother, unexpectedly, at age 34, the loss made no sense to him. How could it? Van Tongeren was a lifelong Christian with “a very certain view of God and how ...

Humanity is diving headlong into a global experiment. More than 1 billion people have a new and unprecedented source of information and cognitive guidance: artificial intelligence (AI) trained on ...