We hear it all the time, in the business world, in the political arena, in marriages, anytime there is a disagreement or conflict: “Perception is reality.” This aphorism is often used to justify a ...

The truth is that no matter how self-aware and honest you think you’re being with yourself and everyone else, there are times where what you say is not what you actually mean. Times when your ...

Many important factors form the perceptions each employee holds about his workplace. Depending on the personality of the worker, the communication level of coworkers and managers and the overall ...

When it comes to self-assessment, new U of T research suggests that maybe we do have a pretty good handle on our own personalities after all. "It's widely assumed that people have rose-coloured ...

Perception is not objective reality. Case in point: The image just above is stationary and flat. But try telling your brain that. A new book, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from ...

The film Black Swan (2010) is the journey of a dancer seeking perfection. However, this leads her to dance a downward spiral, in which reality becomes increasingly distorted. The concept of reality is ...

Despite exuding confidence, narcissistic people relentlessly crave admiration. In other words, they are unable to convince themselves of their own brilliance. Growing research shows the gap between ...

As neural networks become more powerful, their view of the world is converging rather than diverging. Now computer scientists think they know why. Plato’s Theory of Forms addresses the question of how ...

A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, looking at the fields and the sky, there was a shift in my perception.