Julian Barnes opens Changing My Mind, his brisk new book about our unruly intellects, with a quote famously attributed to the economist John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind.” ...

A few years back, I wrote a couple of pieces for this blog on how to change people’s minds, even if what they believe is categorically wrong. Cook and Lewandowsky’s (2011) debunking handbook was ...

The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find.

Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like.” This quote pithily underscores the human tendency to desire growth while also harboring strong resistance to the ...

I was reading something recently that suggested that being willing and able to change your mind is an important part of healthy aging. But the article tied the ability to change your mind to the word ...

Not to sound too "kids these days," but I find that many young managers who have made a poor decision resist revisiting that choice, even when doing so would clearly be the right move. During a recent ...