— -- You may think that other people act irrationally, but you're too smart and sophisticated. Dream on, say Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman in their brief, summer release, Sway: The Irresistible ...

Human beings are predisposed to make bad investment decisions. Our natural reactions will lead us to buy near the peaks and sell near the lows, which is not a good recipe for building wealth.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an established cognitive-behavioural intervention centred on identifying and challenging irrational beliefs that contribute to emotional disturbances.

Hundreds of years ago, two English philosophers wrote about their views on human nature. In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes set forth the argument that when “men live without other security than what their ...

Many reactions to COVID-19 can be explained by one simple concept: intertemporal substitution. Its awkward name notwithstanding, the idea helps to make sense of many behaviors that otherwise might ...

Many reactions to COVID-19 can be explained by one simple concept: intertemporal substitution. Its awkward name notwithstanding, the idea helps to make sense of many behaviors that otherwise might ...

DEAR ABBY: How do I tell my friend I feel she needs a mental health evaluation? She has been my closest friend for 20 years, and we have been through many trials together. She has been married for a ...

I recently read an article by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in which he described the renewed battle between so-called freshwater economists (so named because they are largely based ...