This post is in response to The Ghost of Situationism and Why Personality Is Not a Myth By Scott A. McGreal MSc. This article is part 1 of 2. Every year, the Edge asks many different scientists to ...

Social psychologists have developed names for a host of biases in the ways people perceive behaviour. The fundamental attribution error is not only one of the most ...

You may be familiar with the “fundamental attribution error,” which is our tendency to characterize our own behavior as a reasonable response to circumstance, but other people’s behavior as a ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Jeremy Stanley is SVP Product and Data Sciences for ...

Have you ever thought to yourself, “He is an anxious guy," or "she seems kind of edgy?” As human beings, one of the most instinctive things we do is make judgments about people we meet. But in doing ...

This article originally appeared in Science of Us. Generally speaking, when you’re trying to understand a news event through a behavioral-science lens, it’s not a good idea to roll up, loudly invoke ...

One day, after being sent home on a mandatory furlough, a group of employees at the Arizona Department of Security were being paid overtime to catch up on their backlog. “Only in government,” State ...

There I was, sitting in a packed movie theatre. I waited two years for this sequel and I’ve got enough popcorn and diet soda to last me a full three hours. Fifteen minutes into the movie, the hero and ...

Harlem, a longtime Black neighborhood in New York City, has felt the effects of gentrification. Social psychologists have written hundreds of thousands of words about ...