Adversarial collaboration helps scientists understand controversial issues. Businesses should consider the technique for the great make-or-break decisions. The process can avoid the pitfalls that so ...

I recently watched an EDGE lecture by one of my favorite mavericks, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, my personal touchstone to rational person behavior. His piece was on “adversarial collaboration, ...

Staging an angry winner-take-all debate was, for many years, seen as the only way to settle a protracted academic dispute. But a project that has asked social scientists to work together when they ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly has plans to perform a large study on a “possible connection” between vaccines and autism—a topic of interest to Robert F. Kennedy ...

On April 13, 2024, I visited the Stewart Building in New York for the last time. This was the home of Danny Kahneman. I had been visiting him there in his apartment for more than 15 years. Our ...

The facial feedback hypothesis argues that people’s emotions are influenced by their facial expressions. The Many Smiles Collaboration — a multicentre, international adversarial collaboration — put ...

・A recent study disputes the notion that conservatives are inherently more rigid in their beliefs, suggesting both conservatives and progressives exhibit similar psychological traits. ・The study, ...