Did you misplace your crystal ball? Maybe you noticed that yours stopped working years ago. And yet humans keep trying in vain to predict and maintain control over situations, our lives, and the ...

The word "practical" has kind of gotten a bad name, implying a certain dourness, a life lacking in purple. We tend to more admire life writ-large: the risk-taker, the idealist, the artiste. Yet, with ...

A few semesters into my teaching career as a psychology professor, I uncovered a cheating ring. I determined who the ringleader was and called him to my office. He admitted that he had illicitly ...