Fifteen years ago as of May 18th, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves was published. In it, prolific science writer Matt Ridley made clear – with copious evidence – that humanity's condition ...

Intelligence and intuition are very different ways of knowing. We might think of them in opposing ways. Most people tend to default into operating from one or the other. Generally, men tend to value ...

Standard IQ tests are problematic on many levels — not least, because they do very little to tell us about the quality of our thinking. Looking to overcome this oversight, psychologist Keith Stanovich ...

The field of rational secret sharing and cryptographic protocols integrates classical secret sharing schemes with game theory, addressing the challenge of inducing honest behaviour among ...

The mental skills that intelligence tests measure do not include rationality. Yet it is the development of our rational capacities - adopting appropriate goals, taking the appropriate action given one ...