Robert Sternberg was the President of the University of Wyoming from July 2013-November 2013. Previous to his work at the University, Sternberg served as the Provost and Senior Vice President at ...

Robert Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko address the roles and interaction of nature and nurture in Intelligence, Heredity and Environment, which provides a comprehensive, balanced, current survey of ...

An honest, unvarnished, explanation of the world. Episodes from The Explanation, Unspun World, The Global Jigsaw and The Media Show.

The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people are averse to inconsistencies within their own minds. It offers one explanation for why people sometimes make an effort to adjust their ...

We may take what it means to be “smart” as a given: You got straight A’s in school and can add up a table of numbers in your ...

Joseph C. Sternberg is a member of the Journal's editorial board and the Political Economics columnist. He joined the Journal in 2006 as an editorial writer in Hong Kong, where he also edited the ...

Here Prof. Dixit explains game theory and its impact on situations we encounter every day. "If Nash got a dollar for every time someone wrote or said 'Nash equilibrium,'" Dixit has said ...

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network Look closely at this image, stripped of ...

Theory of mind is typically defined as the ability to understand the thoughts, beliefs, desires, and emotions of other people. This understanding allows individuals to predict how others will feel ...

When we use the word "theory" in everyday life ... well-supported scientific explanation for the relatedness of all life.

They contend that monetarism falters as an adequate explanation of the economy because velocity is inherently unstable and attach little or no significance to the quantity theory of money and the ...