Every day, we are faced with countless claims and persuasive messages. Most of those messages are trying to sell us something: Our toothbrush cleans better than others do, this new app reduces stress, ...

Evolutionary psychology hypotheses can be rigorously tested, and sometimes decisively overturned, challenging the long-standing claim that the field is inherently unfalsifiable, according to a ...

I am often asked by psychologists and other scientists if there is “empirical support” for the Tree of Knowledge System. My first response is: “Absolutely. Look around. Material objects behave in ...

AN empirical science is either one which, as the term implies, is supported by the evidence of the senses, or one which is built up out of the elements of experience. Physical science, beginning and ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...