The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One of the things I have started to suspect recently is that most people’s estimations of a journalist’s personal trustworthiness seem to ...

One of the criticisms I sometimes hear of behavioral finance, mostly from the rational crowd, is that one is just showing that 'people a...

One of the key meta-points of the rationality crowd  is that one needs to explicitly think about problem-solving, because one's intuitio...

I've wondered a few times  on these pages about the psychology of married people who begin affairs. As I wrote at the time : As the l...

In the world of male hairstyles, hair length functions something like a cross between mercury poisoning and a syphilis infection. Initially ...

(Previous thoughts on the psychology of strip clubs  here , and male self-deception in relationships  here  and  here .) The standard comp...

Okay, as soon as I wrote that I realized that there’s probably dozens of sneakier ones I don’t know about, but this one I have at least ob...

There was a CNN article on Hacker News recently complaining about the amount of wasted food in America today. Forty percent of food in the...

So I managed to be perhaps the last person in America to watch 'The Dark Knight Rises'. It reinforced everything I've thought ab...

One of the most striking modern pathologies is the nervous twitch of obsessively checking one's phone. I use the terms 'obsessive&...

The second effect of overconfidence on the sports field is that people over-invest in the sport. In other words, when you think you have h...

Statisticians rarely make good members of sports teams. I found this out the hard way when I used to be on a frisbee team. Most people run...

If you ever want an example of just how fickle people's preferences really are, look no further than their choice of holiday destination...

The problem with knowing something is that it makes it very hard to accurately put yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't know it....

Apologies for the lack of updates - I've been hanging in Miami for a few days. And this got me thinking about the false consensus effec...