Leadership is about pushing new ideas; it is about mobilizing and motivating people and getting them to act as a collective team. It’s about projecting commitment and expressing enthusiasm to get ...

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 ...

Your brain makes decisions before you even realize it. Neuroscience shows the brain can reverse choices internally before you ...

We live in an era of much misinformation and conspiracy theories. We are also required to have potentially chellenging ...

Is there anything people can do to start to restore some sanity and have actually productive conversations with people you disagree with? Yup, answer psychologists. Their advice isn’t always easy to ...

As I explain in the book, intellectual wellness calls for a renewal of the mind. The mind is the first domain addressed in ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Opinion content is solely the opinion of the writer and not the Daily Journal. Readers frequently offer advice on my columns, with a common theme of helping me be more persuasive. I ...

Readers frequently offer advice on my columns, with a common theme of helping me be more persuasive. I appreciate the comments, but I should make clear that these columns are not designed to be ...