Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

The Friendly Journalist Method™ doesn’t focus on making your lie detection skills better; it focuses on making their lie-telling skills worse. How do we do that?

Canada and the UK have both dropped Reid-style interrogation, finding it to be coercive and unethical.

give people a second chance.

People turn to crystal balls and tarot cards not for hard answers but for a story that gives them a feeling of control over their lives.

Instead of focusing on not judging a book by its cover, it would be more useful to say we would be better off putting more effort into revising the judgments we will undoubtedly make.

readability is more important than reading skills. People-reading skills aren’t that variable,

What is empathy? Empathy is when the line between you and another blurs, when you become confused where you end and another person begins.

Doesn’t matter if you’re actually guilty or not: it’ll get a confession out of most people.

First impressions are generally accurate. But once they’re set, they’re extremely hard to change.