According to a study, the brain perceives unethical behaviour as impossibly difficult. Consider yourself in need of a snack at work when you notice a candy bar on a colleague’s desk. Why not simply consume it while the co-worker is absent? Some people may not engage in it since they…

The Christmas season can be a time of great joy and happiness. It can also be a time of sadness, depression, stress and loneliness for many people. The expression “there’s no place like home for the holidays” promises experiences of warmth and joy that are a reality for some and…

Our brains either see an object when we look at it as a whole or as a collection of its pieces. Think about photo mosaics, which are composed of a huge number of little photographs that, when put together in a specific way, create a larger overall image: In fact…

Particularly in American politics, conspiracy theories and the number of people who believe in them appear to be increasing daily. A 2019 poll from Insider found that nearly 80% of people in the United States follow at least one unproven theory, conspiracy or not. The question is, Why do so…

Researchers claim that people cannot identify the difference between a face produced by artificial intelligence (AI) using StyleGAN2 and a real face, and are urging measures to prevent “deep fakes.” StyleGAN2- Is a generative adversarial network (GAN) introduced by Nvidia researchers in December 2018 Text, audio, image, and video that…

In the television show “The Good Place,” a dead philosopher named Chidi tries to make his fellow citizens into better people by exposing them to the concerns of moral philosophers. This involves the “trolley dilemma.” And it illustrates the problem of ethics in our society, a problem that is becoming…

Everyone is familiar with someone who constantly apologizes (maybe you are one). This is the opening sentence of an intriguing new study by Karina Schumann and colleagues published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, that investigates how people evaluate frequent vs. rare apologizers and how this impacts how they…

Recently, the issues of toxic workplaces and toxic leaders has gained widespread attention. How to handle or stay away from toxic leaders and how to improve toxic work environments are topics that are frequently discussed. Less focus, however, has been placed on the kind of leaders we require and want…

Remember the last time you failed or made a crucial error. Do you still feel embarrassed and chastise yourself for being so foolish or self-centered? Do you frequently feel isolated in that mistake, as if you were the only one who made a mistake? Or do you try to speak…