It's no secret that people vary in their pandemic risk perceptions. Source: Emily Parrish, used with permission. I’m sure you’ve noticed that people vary in their assessments of pandemic risks. It’s ...

Saudi behavior over the past weeks is best understood as coercive boundary‑setting: the calibrated use of limited but visible ...

Times of crises often call for strong and rapid action, but in polarized societies, strong top-down policies can backfire. Scientists present a conceptual model of how these dynamics could play out in ...

Your chance of being crushed in bed tonight by a falling satellite is minuscule. It is also nonzero. Ronald Howard, a Stanford engineering professor and founder of a discipline called decision ...

While acetaminophen is helping you deal with your headache, it may also be making you more willing to take risks, a new study suggests. People who took acetaminophen rated activities like 'bungee ...

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for." –William G.T. Shedd Source: IMPhoto1/Shutterstock Life presents us with defining moments—opportunities to step forward into the unknown ...

Woody Allen defined major surgery as "anything being done to me." When it comes to evaluating medical risk -- or risk of any kind, for that matter -- it gets very personal, and when we're weighing ...