As a people, have we become too cynical for our own good? We live in an age where we routinely assume that all politicians ...

Did you ever notice how emotions flow through society from person to person, from group to group, because of the effects of emotional contagion? Emotions have run high in the past few years. They ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Maggie Chiang / For The Times) If you feel certain your preferred candidate will lose the presidential election, that AI is ...

“The most amazing thing about the 2016 elections,” Roger Porter of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government told me, “is that we are likely to elect someone who close to two-thirds of the country does ...

Cynicism is a belief that humans are self-interested and immoral. Cynicism was once seen as radical, now is largely viewed as corrosive. Cynicism in large doses is unhealthy, but in some forms may be ...

Cynical people tend to have a greater stress response, which can lead to inflammation Your spouse “had to stay late at work” – are you skeptical? Do you think your friend doesn’t like you if he ...

Throughout history, every era has had a dominant philosophy that shaped how people saw the world and each other. Medieval man couldn't imagine the world outside the church's authority, while ...

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In the contemporary landscape of skepticism and analytical rigor, advocating for naivety over cynicism might appear unconventional. Yet, this argument is essential in an era where innovation and ...

The law of supply and demand, like the law of gravity, applies to just about everything. These days, for example, cynicism abounds—“We are all cynics now,” Ansgar Allen reports—and we value this ...

The Vancouver Canucks have provided their fans with ample cause for cynicism over the past nine months. It’s not just that the hockey has been hard to watch since the club departed the bubble in ...