Humans are wired to focus on bad news, amplified by media and algorithms. Mindful consumption and balanced perspectives can ...

For example, we assume a person in a labcoat is probably ... Closely related to the availability heuristic is the idea of representativeness, which fools us into thinking that objects, people, or ...

We all make bad decisions sometimes. In some contexts, to a certain extent, psychologists know why. Much research on the ...

My name is Bill Burkett, and I am a data modeler.  I don’t call myself that often and sometimes have misgivings about doing ...

It is representative of the reality that facts ... For the most part, it is because of “familiarity” whereby our heuristic processing favors things that feel familiar in order to facilitate ...

These include: anchoring (cognitive bias), availability heuristic, representativeness heuristic ... voters and no late surprises; large sample sizes because robust and diverse samples reduce ...

The company’s new chips are built to meet generative AI’s growing demand for real-time reasoning capabilities.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission promises to fill significant gaps in our understanding of the universe and propel humanity forward in a new phase of the space race. Exploring the cosmos ...

The House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution Tuesday − 217-213 − in an attempt to stave off a government shutdown at the end of the week. The resolution made it out of the ...