How to change your mind — and the minds of the people around you, according to experts - IN DEPTH: How do you argue with your ...

Leadership is about pushing new ideas; it is about mobilizing and motivating people and getting them to act as a collective team. It’s about projecting commitment and expressing enthusiasm to get ...

A few years back, I wrote a couple of pieces for this blog on how to change people’s minds, even if what they believe is categorically wrong. Cook and Lewandowsky’s (2011) debunking handbook was ...

Critical thinking helps us to check and update our personal views and biases, to avoid oversimplifying reality, and to help us realize when we've been wrong about something.

I was reading something recently that suggested that being willing and able to change your mind is an important part of healthy aging. But the article tied the ability to change your mind to the word ...

Not to sound too "kids these days," but I find that many young managers who have made a poor decision resist revisiting that choice, even when doing so would clearly be the right move. During a recent ...

The author, an economics professor, states his goal is to educate readers with economic tools, not to persuade them with rhetoric. He uses economic models and data to explain the trade-offs of ...

When Daryl van Tongeren lost his beloved brother, unexpectedly, at age 34, the loss made no sense to him. How could it? Van Tongeren was a lifelong Christian with “a very certain view of God and how ...