People who are more likely to endorse pseudoscientific beliefs tend to report experiencing meaningful coincidences more often ...

My previous piece on the Causal Landscape described a strategy for describing why events occurred. The Causal Landscape avoids simplistic single-cause explanations and it also avoids exhaustive ...

Most discussions of causal explanations of behavior focus on the problem of whether it makes sense to regard reasons as causes of human behavior, whether there can be laws connecting reasons with ...

In everyday life, we encounter situations that seem to demand an explanation of why something happened, how it happened, or how it could have been prevented. People have a scientist-like desire in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Individualists claim that wide explanations in psychology are problematic. I argue that wide psychological explanations sometimes have greater ...

Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram may not be great for personal well-being. The first experimental study examining use of multiple platforms shows a causal link between time spent on these social ...

Even before Bridgegate shattered Chris Christie’s reputation, his resume was riddled with examples of dishonesty. "Even as Christie was running against Jersey’s political culture," Alec MacGillis ...