“There are two sides to every story.” That lesson was drummed into me when I studied journalism years ago. However, stories are more complicated than that, and so are human beings. In today’s complex ...

How you think about the events and people in your life can either help you reframe things in more positive ways that help you cope or take you down a rabbit hole of negative thinking and feeling bad ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect.

Cognitive distortions, or thinking errors, can take a toll on our mental health. Here are five such thinking patterns and ways to overcome them. We are all vulnerable to certain “thinking errors,” ...

Back in 1935, the American linguist George Zipf made a remarkable discovery. Zipf was curious about the relationship between common words and less common ones. So he counted how often words occur in ...

Repetitive negative thinking is an important marker of dementia risk, according to a new study. Researchers found that chronic negative thinking is associated with faster cognitive decline and ...

The late historians Will and Ariel Durant spent four decades of their life studying, compiling, and writing the history of Western civilization. The product of their efforts, The Story of Civilization ...

The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) and Miami University’s College of Education, Health, and Society (EHS) and College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) have partnered to make a new series ...

Today we’re obsessed with data. Experts in every industry are finding ingenious ways to measure and depict millions of data points every day. But data is virtually worthless unless someone can look at ...