In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes set forth the argument that when “men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal,” there is “continual fear, ...

Every disaster brings out human irrationality. When there’s a plane crash, we fear flying; when a rare disease emerges, we fear we will be infected. And when there’s a mass shooting in a ...

Parents may skip a vaccination simply to stick a finger in the eye of the government scolds who offer unsolicited advice on every aspect of family life.

The fact that humans are subject to all these failures of rational thought seems to make no sense. Reason is supposed to be the highest achievement of the human mind, and the route to knowledge ...

Robert Siegel talks to behavioral economist Dan Ariely about his new book, The Upside of Irrationality. The book is a follow-up to his New York Times best-seller, Predictably Irrational, in which ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Does America need a shrink? Has American behavior, certainly regarding the November presidential election, become so irrational and inexplicable that clinical help, if it were ...

The second reason is that irrationality may not be such a terrible thing. And the irrationality of imagination may actually be a liberating mental facility.

In reality, this whole neo-fascist rabble cultivates and nurtures the mass irrationality and paranoia from which our societies suffer, for one simple reason: because this irrationality and ...

And it takes little more than high school math to show that this sequence of fractions approaches e quickly enough to rule out all possible denominators. In the years it took to prove the ...