Psychology

It’s unlikely you are feeling charitable today, especially since taxes are due soon. 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the federal income tax—and with it, the complex and contentious relationship between...

At first blush, it seems like a scene out of an 80’s era sci-fi film.  The police chief plugs into the network.  Pressing a few keys, he scans a screen full of data and radios a squad car: “Proceed to...

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. ― Friedrich Nietzsche Plato once said, “Those who tell the stories rule society.”  We  need only look at the modern marketing machine or the...

As Allied troops stormed the beaches of Italy, a nurse and an anesthesiologist anxiously watched a wounded soldier.  He was in severe pain and on the verge of shock, but their supply of morphine had run...

In a poorly-lit room, a half naked man is being stuffed into a small plywood box.  The interrogator, a disheveled PhD student, barks, “You lie to me, I hurt you.” So begins the film Zero Dark Thirty,...