In my first post on the Dunning-Kruger Effect (DKE) we reviewed some basic research about the ways in which ignorance makes it difficult to judge your own performance and knowledge. If you read it, ...

Ignorance is bliss, or so the saying goes. Certainly it can be comforting to close your eyes to the unpleasant aspects of dwelling on planet Earth – and few of us are not guilty of it. However, living ...

In an era where news and current events are blowing up our phones, filling our notifications, and on every corner of social media, some choose to omit it altogether in favor of their mental health.

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Knowledge can be a source of power and pleasure, but it also can be unsettling, humiliating, even terrifying. In “Ignorance and Bliss,” Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, ...

FOLLOWING THE publication of the latest research into the placebo effect, we may be getting closer to a medical goal I would love to see achieved. I believe in the concept of doctor-as-drug and ...

You know you’re in trouble when you’re being called racist by the Daily Mail. That’s the unlikely position Cadbury found itself in yesterday, as the nation’s former corporate sweetheart continued to ...

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