We are all prone to motivated reasoning in which our personal goals distort our beliefs. For example, most drivers and most professors think they are above average. Ziva Kunda’s 1990 paper “The Case ...

National Review reports that the Justice Department announced that it found my university, George Mason, in violation of Title VI: At the center of the scandal is Gregory Washington, the university's ...

I am an atmospheric scientist, professor, and the former president of the American Meteorological Society. From these lenses, I have spent a career fascinated by weather, climate, and related societal ...

A new study lays out a bit of a conundrum in its opening paragraphs. It notes that scientific progress depends on the ability to update what ideas are considered acceptable in light of new evidence.

“Why Progressives Should Question Their Favorite Scientific Findings” (The Chronicle Review, October 25) is a classic case of misdirection. As Paul Bloom well knows, the phenomenon of motivated ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! RAND Corporation Strategy Director Jennifer Kavanaugh discussed the ideas of cognitive bias and examples such as motivated reasoning, recency bias ...

My 5-year-old nephew once confidently told me that all dinosaurs were green because his three dinosaur toys were green. So I showed him a nature documentary, Walking with Dinosaurs, and suddenly, ...