Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died in July 2025. While he swam in Lake Murray, a reservoir a few miles from Columbia, South ...

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an established cognitive-behavioural intervention centred on identifying and challenging irrational beliefs that contribute to emotional disturbances.

Many reactions to COVID-19 can be explained by one simple concept: intertemporal substitution. Its awkward name notwithstanding, the idea helps to make sense of many behaviors that otherwise might ...

Case 1: Many Americans seem upset that voter turnout is often low for U.S. elections, and they often actively and enthusiastically encourage and “recruit” others to vote, and in fact engage in a form ...

Investors are human. And as humans, they're prone to biases and psychological influences that lead to irrational decision-making. You need only look at the stock market – which has soared to all-time ...

My fellow PT blogger Dan Ariely is one of the most creative behavioral economists in the world today, one of the hotshots in currently the hottest academic field. Ariely is to behavioral economics ...