The NY Times has a nice article about psychology experiments. It turns out that many of the classic psychology experiments about cognitive dissonance may have been skewed because the experimenters did ...

Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those ...

We all need to form accurate judgments about the world, and in many diverse and important contexts. What is the correct diagnosis for someone’s medical condition? Does someone have a crush on you? Did ...

In 1990, a reader asked Marilyn vos Savant a deceptively simple probability question in her newspaper column. Her answer — that you should switch doors in the Monty Hall problem — sparked outrage ...