Wray Herbert

About

Wray Herbert has been writing about psychology and human behavior for more than 25 years. He has been the behavioral science editor at Science News, the editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, health and science editor at US News & World Report, and a columnist for Newsweek, Scientific American Mind, and The Huffington Post. He is the author of On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits.

Books by Wray Herbert

Recent Posts

How The Mind Construes/The Post-Election Blues

Here's a way to keep perspective amid post-election craziness.

The scarcity heuristic, half a mile down

 Brushes with death change how we think about living

The Hidden Costs of a High-Calorie Recession

The heuristic mind entwines cash and hunger, with bad results

Jelly Beans, Stick Figures, and AIDS in Africa

 Heuristic thinking can be fatal in rural Ghana.

A Unifying Theory of Psychological Momentum

 It was a big emotional win. Does that mean momentum?

 It was a big emotional win. Does that mean momentum?

The Whodunit Heuristic: Why 9/11 was Immoral

 The heuristic mind has an automatic and rigid sense of right and wrong.

 The heuristic mind has an automatic and rigid sense of right and wrong.

Life is not a family football pool

 The familiarity heuristic says pick the Redskins

 The familiarity heuristic says pick the Redskins

The "Piece of Cake Heuristic"

Is the "piece of cake heuristic" a variety of the fluency heuristic?

Is the "piece of cake heuristic" a variety of the fluency heuristic?

Spinning class, the scarcity heuristic, and me

A Cognitive Avalanche

A heuristic tragedy that didn't need to happen

A heuristic tragedy that didn't need to happen