We humans are a funny bunch. We celebrate creativity, genius, and success, but often don’t see what it is that gives rise to those traits. We like to think we are fluid, flexible thinkers, but ...

One of the ways in which people think about the people, races, and groups they despise is in black-and-white terms. "Black-and-white thinking" is a cognitive-behavioral psychological term for one of ...

The fight over immigration and ICE has provoked some serious examples of binary thinking, says Paul Prather. Stephen Maturen Getty Images Supposedly it was the literary icon F. Scott Fitzgerald who ...

Supposedly it was the literary icon F. Scott Fitzgerald who first observed, in a 1936 Esquire magazine essay, that "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in ...