During the holiday season, more people serve food to the hungry, donate warm clothes to the homeless and give money to charity. But studies at UC-Berkeley show that what motivates people to give comes ...

Despite starting slowly with some academic jargon about altruism and people's motivations to donate organs, the book quickly takes a right turn and gets interesting ...

The subject of Imelda Marcos comes up often between my neighbor, Melba, and me. Melba is a chemist, an intelligent Filipino woman who received her college education in the United States. Her father ...

There’s a great value in being precise when it comes to communication (if you want your message to be understood as you intended it, anyway; when clarity isn’t the goal, by all means, be imprecise).

This post is in response to Mind Reading and Miscommunication By Alex Korb Ph.D. From The Simpsons and Family Guy to South Park and 30 Rock, moral dilemmas on TV are often illustrated with the use of ...

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