The psychology behind human decision-making and judgment is widely thought to be rational, analytical, and consistent. Our society fetishizes economic forecasts, political statistics, and the digitization of identity through social media. In such a society, it is satisfying to view decision-making as mechanical, predictable, and coherent. However, over the past decade or so, psychological research [...]
Science education in America is an incredibly pressing issue; in his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama made it his key theme. He stressed the need to lead the nation into a new Sputnik era in which the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math—are popular and robust.1 This is because the STEM fields [...]