A classic Harvard study shows the impact of overestimating your ability to control outcomes, especially when you experience early success.

A aron Brown was working as a CIA case officer in 2018 when he wrote a post for an agency blog warning about what he called ...

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Overconfidence about uncertainty is so extreme among US and NATO national security officials, it can cancel out what they ...

Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has responded to Jurgen Klopp’s criticism of the Club World Cup, saying the revamped, 32 ...

The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, with a total of 1,288 cases nationally and ...

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This view inside some of the most precious and rare museum specimens on Earth is helping scientists to better understand the ...

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome. It's his first break ...

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An analysis of US surface water monitoring records has found that less than 1% of chemicals of potential environmental ...

In the first 4½ months of this year, one-third of people arrested by Augusta police were homeless, a situation that's not ...