We all know the five stages of grief, right? More than likely, we have all experienced them at some point: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Somewhere in there, though (probably ...

Adam Egypt Mortimer is a director whose career THN have followed very closely. His debut, Some Kind of Hate, gave the world a female Freddy Krueger type, Archenemy was an interesting spin on the ...

Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Karl ...

Narrative fallacy is a term introduced by Nassim Taleb [1]. It refers to our difficulty looking at a sequence of facts without connecting them in some way, either to each other or to something else we ...

Let's start with the conclusion.Your intuition is correct. While 'a fallacy is complete when all three are present,' a ...

French economist Frédéric Bastiat in the 19th century famously wrote of the Broken Window Fallacy that mischaracterizes wealth destruction as wealth creation. Breaking windows is good for the economy, ...

With the constant stream of data about COVID-19, it can be hard to make sense of all the numbers. We look at the base rate fallacy, and how some people are making this mistake when assessing risk.

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Economics professors typically cover the “economic way of thinking” in the first chapter of a principles of economics course. After covering 8-10 of the most important guideposts and principles of ...

That is the counterintuitive theory that Sandeep Baliga of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Jeffrey Ely of Northwestern University’s Department of Economics advance in their paper ...