Human behavior is endlessly fascinating. We all walk around with our own quirks and habits, often unaware of just how similar or different we might be from others. You might be surprised to learn just ...

Back in 2001, I was an aspiring writer attending the Clarion West Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop in Seattle. Butler had attended a Clarion workshop 30 years prior as a student, but now ...

In our workshops, we talk about various forms of frivolous spending and how much you could save by cutting luxury items out of your life. So why do people spend money on them? The same reason people ...

How many friends can we actually cope with? And how did insects help us genetically? There’s so much left to unlock about the human mind. Luckily, we know a lot of cool info already. So get your brain ...

We are living in polarizing times. Whatever the categorization is, we are constantly being bombarded by rhetoric trying to pit different groups against each other. Perhaps the most classic and ...

When The Terminator and RoboCop hit theaters in the 1980s, Hollywood imagined artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat—machines that would dominate, surveil, and destroy us. Four decades ...

Social psychologists are interested in trust because it allows people to interact more deeply and effectively. In particular, they seek to understand the process of developing trust and what happens ...

I’m a huge fan of Anthony Bourdain’s travel show Parts Unknown. In each episode, the chef visits remote villages across the globe, documenting the lives, foods, and cultures of regional tribes with an ...

The world of technology is changing rapidly, and with it comes the development of new communication protocols like the Internet of Behavior (IoB). IoB offers a revolutionary way to monitor, control ...