Is confirmation bias a helpful or hurtful thing to do? Let’s look at the science.Confirmation bias is the tendency to look for evidence around us that supports the things we already believe, opinions we already have, and expectations we already hold (Nickerson, 1998)....
Discover what research has to tell us about why confabulations happen and whom they happen to.Confabulations, in their broadest form, are statements that reflect a distortion of one’s memories (Metcalf et al., 2007), such that the statement is related to actual events...
Learn about doubt and how it can be both good and bad.We can define doubt as a lack of certainty and confidence in what we are experiencing or feeling (Lazarov et al., 2012). When we feel doubt, we are likely to experience most or all of the following (Baek,...
When is manipulating the people around you good or bad? Let’s see how intentions matter in manipulation.On a very basic level, one is manipulating any time that one tries to change or influence the behaviors or bodies of another organism or object (Buss et al., 1987)....
Learn about different explanations of the law of attraction.To social scientists, there are two laws of attraction. The one you are more likely to have heard of is built on the idea, first proposed in the 19th century but more recently and popularly described in the...
