Speak like an insider! Welcome to Snopes-tionary, where we'll define a term or piece of fact-checking lingo that we use on the Snopes team. Have a term you want us to explain? Let us know. Also known ...

The fallacy is that we are surprised when things that are supposed to vary a lot, come down one way a number of times. We feel the next case must break the pattern. In reality, there is no pattern.

Narrative fallacy is a term introduced by Nassim Taleb [1]. It refers to our difficulty looking at a sequence of facts without connecting them in some way, either to each other or to something else we ...

Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Karl ...

The “gambler’s fallacy” - which can affect everyone from athletes to loan officers - creates deceptive biases that lead you to anticipate patterns that don’t really exist. As we head into 2021, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Narcissists rely on these five ‘logical fallacies’ like a ...

As an entrepreneur, sharp decision-making is your superpower, but thinking traps can hinder your success. Learn how to navigate these pitfalls and strengthen your decision-making skills with insights ...