Story by Alejandro Hortal-Sánchez, Wake Forest University; University of North Carolina – Greensboro Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died in July 2025. While he swam in Lake Murray, a reservoir a few ...

In a previous post, we considered three of seven "irrational" habits of highly rational people. Here we consider the remaining four, as well as some suggestions for distinguishing the genuinely ...

Humans aren't the only ones that make irrational choices; new research has found single-celled brain-less slime moulds do it too. The findings suggest irrational decision making - for example, in ...

Human beings can be both rational and irrational, depending on the scientific lens in use. From a behavioral economics perspective, many decisions appear biased and suboptimal. From an ecological or ...

For example, if for every highly negative outcome with a probability of 10 percent and which a rational decision-maker would avoid, then they will be avoiding negative outcomes that simply don’t ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Firefighters responded to the scene around 8 a.m. and found heavy fire on all three ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) These reactions raise a deeper question: What does it mean to call a response ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) "It would be good to know who's arriving, when and how. This is not an insignificant ...