A small mountain of scientific evidence supports the idea that facing your fears is the way to get over them. However, that evidence doesn’t make it any easier to confront, say, the group of people ...

The American Psychiatric Association estimates that approximately one in ten people in the United States suffer from some type of phobia. About 40 percent of phobias are related to creatures such as ...

IF YOU break out in a cold sweat at the thought of eight hairy legs, “invisible” images could help. Joel Weinberger at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, found that exposing people to ...

Some consumers are concerned about businesses using covert methods to influence purchasing decisions. They fear that some of the methods used by the advertising media can have such an effect on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the looming danger that advanced ...

Jason Zweig’s Your Money and Your Brain cites research that suggests that fear is much more common and has much greater effects than most poker players believe. Poker players rarely discuss fear. It ...