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Critical Thinking
When it comes to handling our emotions, we can’t afford to be none the WISER.
Social media has made yelling past each other all the easier.
Your five-year-old can probably spot a cop-out.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: "Sleep on it."
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
Are you a video gaming master? Put it on your résumé.
Can ChatGPT help you power through writer's block?
Human thinking is antiquated.
Kids are fragile. They should trust their feelings. The world is a battle between good and evil. We should stop repeating these untruths.
Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.
Take a closer look at the different types of reasoning you use every day.
Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
Million Stories
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
The best-laid plans of mice and everyone else.
Computerized, job-focused learning undercuts the true value of higher education. Liberal arts should be our model for the future.
Find it easier to sort out your friends' problems than your own? This paradox is for you.
From honing the art of perception to checking cognitive biases, here are a few techniques employees can learn in critical thinking training.
People naturally judge fact from fiction in offline social settings, so why is it so hard online?
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, "prebunking" can fight fake news.
Your very own "Conspiracy Detection Kit."
The acceptance of fashionable nonsense is a threat to Enlightenment values and public health.
Negative feedback ignites the primal (“fight or flight”) and emotional (“do they hate me?”) parts of our brain first.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?