(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

If the 2024 electoral outcome demonstrates anything enduring, it is this: So much for classical liberalism being on the “wrong side of history.” The American progressive movement has for decades ...

Back in 1814, Pierre-Simon Laplace was mulling over the implications of Newtonian mechanics, and realized something profound. If there were a vast intelligence -- since dubbed Laplace's Demon-- that ...

Each of us belongs to a world of cause and effect, governed by natural laws. Author and neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky argues that our actions, like everything else, are fully determined by conditions ...

To arrive in front of a class and feel powerless in the face of students with a bleak future all mapped out for them, is a frustration that many teachers can feel. But is the future really that mapped ...

Do you prefer to run in packs or operate as a loner? Your answer is determined by your genes, a new study claims. It’s a big shift in social behavior theory, since scientists previously thought the ...

Hard-determinism is "If we ran it again, it would return the same results, because conditions were identical, and it wouldn't make a difference anyway." Any discussion of "Free will" or "determinism" ...