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Three psychology researchers (including the Queenslander Matthew Thompson ) have hit upon one of the most amazing distortion illusions I...

I hastened to read Thinking, fast and slow by the Israeli-born Daniel Kahneman after coming upon a description of the Princeton professo...

There's an amusing article in The Wall Street Journal [ display ] about a Nobel Laureate in economics, Daniel Kahneman , who's a p...

The Yale psychologist Paul Bloom is interested in big fundamental questions of an aesthetic or moral kind, such as: Why do we like certain ...

It's not unlikely that the Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik is in fact " crazy "—as his lawyer Geir Lippestad ...

When I was a 14-year-old kid hanging around in the rough competitive-cycling environment of my native Grafton and Coffs Harbour, the very id...

This is really weird stuff. And so it should be, because the Queensland psychologist Matthew Thomson has hit upon a way of transforming por...

On April 1, I was looking so eagerly for gags of all unexpected kinds (including those that turned out to be perfectly serious stuff) that I...

Nowadays, my children Emmanuelle and François do a lot of traveling, often for professional reasons. I think back with nostalgia to the da...

I've already evoked the brilliant books of the Canadian-American psychologist Steven Pinker . He's best tackled, I believe, by The L...