People often cheat to win money, get prizes, or beat others. But what if there’s nothing to gain except feeling good about yourself? Would people still bend the rules just to feel a bit smarter, more ...

Key points We're blind to the corrective nature of painful memories when our efforts to keep safe violate deeper values. Self-deception is rampant in groupthink, when pressures of conformity dominate ...

Humans are masters of self-deception. We fool ourselves into believing things that are false and we refuse to believe things that are true. In fact, we lie to ourselves about just about everything — ...

By exposing the neurological origins of self-deception, this book offers a blueprint for reclaiming agency, breaking behavioral cycles, and disrupting the mental health system’s dependence on symptom ...

Have you ever seen a baby when it first learns to crawl? The baby gets up on all fours and pushes his or herself backward. I watched one of these miniature people crawl the other day and was ...

“Mankind cannot take too much reality.” – T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets We have many ways to fool ourselves beyond the obvious defense mechanisms and coping habits. This post addresses only the few that ...