This is the 10th article in the Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics series, exploring the effect behavior has on markets and the economy as a whole and how advisors who understand this relationship ...

During my 25 years as a lawyer and human rights advocate, I've been in many courtrooms in many places. But I've never seen anything quite like what I recently witnessed in Bahrain. I sat in on one of ...

In psychology, “status quo bias” refers to our general tendency to prefer things the way they are rather than having to face the uncertainty of less familiar options. In part, this is because we ...

Change tends to be difficult. This is true whether the change in question is something as personal as a New Year's resolution or as impersonal as updating a business procedure or law. Nevertheless, it ...

Is the American socioeconomic ladder sturdy, offering a good chance for people to move up and down? Or is it rickety, leaving most people stuck where they are? Psychologists at Princeton University ...

HELP Committee hearing, Senator Murkowski spoke about the urgent need to address both the immediate and long-term challenges ...

We often hear these words thrown around, but do we ever stop to define what they are or how they apply to us? This is an important question because it forces us to slow down and really understand what ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Why are so many Americans so eager to find alternatives—political, medical, vocational—to ...

In a recent publication, the authors—a former senior military commander and a defense policy civilian—argued that America’s national security professionals are far too quick to dismiss escalation as a ...

Many organizations want independent learning-agile employees who learn from experience, figure out new and different problems without much help and can work well in team-based situations. That ...

All of that, more or less, remained her status quo, for the better part of 45 years. Then, DC Comics gave Wonder Woman a big post- Crisis on Infinite Earths glow-up in 1986.

WASHINGTON (TND) — M&M's is putting the spotlight on 20 trailblazing women in honor of International Women's Day. Part of the "Flipping the Status Quo program," the honorees were nominated by family, ...