A series of three experiments found that when people evaluate arguments on political topics, their prior beliefs about that ...

The C and C++ standards do not specify the order of evaluation for function arguments. This can lead to subtle portability problems. As I explained in my column last month (“As Precise As Possible”), ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by our partner, ScienceNordic. The original is here. Why do people continue smoking or eating unhealthy food when the arguments against doing so are as strong ...

If all flowers have petals and roses have petals, should we conclude from those claims that roses are flowers? Many people make this mistake of thinking that we should (Markovits & Nantel, 1989). Let ...

In a fascinating new paper in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences titled "Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory," Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber offer the hypothesis that ...