Radical changes are in store when Charles Darwin and Daniel Kahneman are properly introduced to one another. Just as the infusion of cognitive psychology had a jolting impact on how we think about economics,the infusion of evolutionary psychology is likely to produce yet another seismic uplift in the terrain. On the evolutionary view, what seems irrational at the surface level may be, on closer examination, deeply rational. Read More

Although the University of Michigan Wolverine football team is in last place in the Big Ten, fans should stop worrying. Athletic Director Bill Martin has placed a call to the White House and arranged for a bailout. Here are the details:

1. With a zero percent loan from the Federal Reserve, The University of Michigan will buy the University of Notre Dame's football team for $8 billion. Read More

When I was young, I used to tell my mother, with great gusto and frequency, that "we're the same person." I fully believed it then. I was in awe of her and wanted to be not just her walking, talking mini-me, but her. Not like her. Not sharing her interests. Her. Read More

 How you tell your spouse that you want a divorce can determine whether the divorce is relatively peaceful or litgiouis and destructive. Read More

What will it take to convince parents that playing a game with their young children is better than watching TV. Maybe a few complaints and a refund will do the trick.  Read More

To be clear, I voted for the other guy, the one who didn't win the presidency. I'm an occupational paradox: a college professor who usually leans politically right. That said, I publicly declare an enthusiastic girl-crush on our nation's first lady, Michelle Obama. Read More

At least the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew 150 miles past their appointed runaway didn't claim "daydreaming" as a distraction. Instead, they asserted that they were caught up in doing business on their laptops. Daydreaming is often blamed for causing such space outs and missed external cues: a shift in a conversation, bread burning in the toaster, or when we're really deep in the middle distance, a missed exit ramp. This is one of the ways in which daydreaming gets a bad rap. Yet one of the reasons we can get away with daydreaming so frequently and experience its many benefits is because the daydreaming mind seems to have a built-in "capacity for interruption." Read More

When it comes to revealing true feelings and emotions, our lips are invaluable. In relationships or at work, our lips reveal how we truly feel. Difficult to control or mask, lips are extremely accurate for assessing comfort and discomfort and remarkably for evincing deception. We may not say it, but our lips will convey it! Read More