Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. New research shows that conspiracy beliefs can profoundly ...

Social constructionism, a popular belief system in many humanities departments, “is the epistemology of scholarship in haste, of professors under the gun,” writes Mark Bauerlein, a professor of ...

The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. A recent study uses well-known formalisms in statistical physics to model multiple aspects of belief-network ...

“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true ...

AI chatbots could be effective in eroding people's beliefs in conspiracy theories, suggests a new study that used ChatGPT to counter them with fact-checked information. The conventional understanding ...

Roughly half of Americans subscribe to some sort of conspiracy theory, and their fellow humans haven’t had much success coaxing them out of their rabbit holes. Perhaps they could learn a thing or two ...

Having read G.T. Kelly's letter of Feb. 21 regarding the theory of evolution, I wish to point out that evolution is a scientific theory. Intelligent design and creationism aren't scientific theories ...

Sometimes the most effective shifts don’t start with convincing people to think differently. They start by getting them to ...

It's easy to laugh off the beliefs of QAnon supporters like Jo Rae Perkins as ridiculous. But for a growing number of Oregonians, the traumatic trifecta of 2020—virus, protests and wildfires—confirms ...