Wa, (UW/R), Sept. 30, GNA – Why do governments sometimes persist with policies that later prove costly, unpopular, or ineffective? Why are warning signs often ignored until a crisis emerges? While ...

Although they are books from completely different fields—social science research (academic writing) and organizational (group) decision-making—they share an important commonality. That commonality is ...

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Todd Wishnev cites Jets-Cowboys line crash from O-line news and says narratives get overdone. Market recency bias creates contrarian betting opportunities.

There are many definitions out there for what constitutes “true” artificial intelligence, but a single quality underlies them all: an ability to learn from past mistakes and refine problem-solving ...

One lesson stands out among the many we must take away from the debacle of COVID-19: No more Faucis. I don’t mean keeping petty, preening public servants out of positions of authority; that’s probably ...

Everyone likes to harp on about political polarization in the U.S. Ironically, that’s a form of groupthink—a “follow the herd” mentality that sucks in commentators and analysts and blinds them to ...

Plus: Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world ...

Kevin McCaffree and Colin Wright identify critical challenges for academe in their op-ed “A Way to Challenge the Groupthink of Scholarly Journals” (May 28). Consider these five additions to their ...

Journal Editorial Report: How top marks became the norm at elite colleges. Photo: Sophie Park/Bloomberg News/Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters We’re often told that science is “self-correcting.” But science isn ...

Mainstream psychiatry has a long history of overpromising and underdelivering. Insulin coma therapy, psychosurgery, deinstitutionalization, psychoanalysis, and biological psychiatry are just some of ...

There are no working artists in Vince Gilligan's Pluribus. Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), the show's protagonist, used to be a successful romantasy novelist, but then a virus of unknown origin swept ...