For most of the last century, psychology has told us a comforting story: your personality is the steady backbone of who you are, predictable from early adulthood and largely resistant to change. But a quiet revolution in research is undermining that assumption, suggesting that our traits may be far more flexible than we thought, ...
You probably like to think of yourself as a rational, data-driven person. Yet, from political arguments to financial decisions to late-night doomscrolling, your brain is quietly playing tricks on you in ways psychologists are still mapping out. Cognitive biases are not rare glitches; they are built-in shortcuts that helped our ancestors survive, but now ...
In the time it takes you to glance at a stranger on the subway or scroll past a face on social media, your brain has already formed an opinion. Safe or risky, kind or cold, competent or clueless – these snap judgments often feel automatic, and they usually happen long before you realize you’ve ...
