In recent years I have become more interested in the psychology of how people respond to weather information. Last month, severe storms moved through North Georgia. Trees were down all over the place, ...

To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' ...

In simple terms, a logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning that weakens your argument; you’ve drawn a conclusion based on illogical, irrelevant, deceptive, or otherwise faulty evidence. You’re probably ...

When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' or 'whataboutism' to seem more convincing. Amanda Ruggeri explains how to identify ...

Source: Hanna Kovalchuk / Pixabay Have you ever noticed how you’ll see the same succinct clever talking-point showing up over and over again especially on social media? Oftentimes, that’s propaganda ...

Clear and rational thinking is essential for effective decision-making and communication in the work place. However, logical fallacies—errors in reasoning that undermine the logic of an argument—are ...

It is frequently asserted by those associated with anti-psychiatry that "mental illness" is nothing more than a metaphor, a figure of speech, used to describe socially deviant persons. Since there ...