Discover how economists' assumptions shape economic models, affecting predictions about consumer behavior, resource ...

Source: Flickr: Cracking Under Stress by Bernard Goldbach, CC by 2.0 In this series of posts, I will be discussing false assumptions that are rampant in the personality disorders research literature ...

Discover how the ceteris paribus assumption isolates variables to clarify economic causation, simplifying complex ...

Kinga Morsanyi, Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast and Ruth Byrne, Professor of Cognitive Science in the School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity ...

Normality testing is a fundamental component in statistical analysis, central to validating many inferential techniques that presume Gaussian behaviour of error terms ...

Although American politics today are defined by sharp, bitter disagreement, a bipartisan US grand strategy for great-power competition has emerged. This report makes explicit 17 critical assumptions ...

Drugs that act on NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors, which are essential for learning, memory and moment-by-moment consciousness, are key for treating neuropsychiatric disorders. These drugs were ...

A new study found that non-autistic U.K. adults are less able to understand animations (representing specific words) generated by autistic individuals compared to animations generated by non-autistic ...

This is the second in a series of posts that discusses false and unacknowledged assumptions that are rampant in the personality disorders research literature and which lead to false or misleading ...