Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. After the contestant ...

Julian Barnes opens Changing My Mind, his brisk new book about our unruly intellects, with a quote famously attributed to the economist John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind.” ...

A few years back, I wrote a couple of pieces for this blog on how to change people’s minds, even if what they believe is categorically wrong. Cook and Lewandowsky’s (2011) debunking handbook was ...

Universal answers are rare, true, but universal questions are not. Over the 15 years I’ve been writing about work, success, and happiness, I’ve consistently stumbled upon experts, research papers, or ...

After the contestant chooses, say, option B, the host reveals one of the remaining choices (say C) does not contain the prize. In the final step, the contestant is asked whether they want to change ...

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