There is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, Jamil Zaki, who’s written extensively on cynicism, skepticism and the study of human connection. Recent events locally and ...

Expecting the worst from others is actually bad for our health, experts say. By Jancee Dunn There are days when the world brings out our sardonic side. But we should fight against what Jamil Zaki, the ...

Skepticism is about questioning rather than automatically believing what you are presented such as that post on social media or on some random website. However, unlike cynicism, it doesn't necessarily ...

While a majority of people express a commitment to most of our social and political institutions and the democratic form of governance enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, there are those who relish ...

Politicians often act noble in public but bully in private. California’s Prop 36 fight shows this hypocrisy clearly in ...

If anything can halt the spread of the ‘ism’ that robs us of hope, trust, and agency, it’s the philosophy that is the rhetorical equivalent of a dog’s bark. The defining “ism” of our age is neither ...

The election of Donald Trump was a political thunderbolt, but was it a surprise? A new study conducted by researchers from Louisiana State University, NORC at the University of Chicago and the ...

As wars rage and the 2024 U.S. presidential election rapidly approaches, anxieties and emotions are high. A recent Brookings report found that less than half of Americans hold an optimistic worldview.

Romantic stories get to me. They always have. And that trait sometimes puts a journalist in an awkward position with others in this particular profession. Reporters and editors are not just paid to ...