Psychological research shows that intolerance of uncertainty limits reasoning ability. Highly intelligent individuals tend to ...

The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) and Miami University’s College of Education, Health, and Society (EHS) and College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) have partnered to make a new series ...

Asking “why” and conjuring up possible answers is an important thinking process. It gives rise to some of the most beautiful states of mind, such as curiosity and imagination. These psychological ...

Critical thinking is what separates sharp, grounded thinkers from those who get easily swayed by noise, assumptions, or surface-level ideas. When someone lacks it, their patterns show up in small but ...

Note that this author, Dr. Ann Olson, has published a book entitled Illuminating Schizophrenia: Insights into the Uncommon Mind. This book is available for purchase on the amazon.com website. Concrete ...

One of the great myths in the technosphere is that musicians make good programmers because music is like math. I disagree. Music is not enough like math for any relevant or significant skill transfer.

While we’ve become increasingly reliant on metrics for design decisions, there is something more powerful in human creativity: the art of mental stargazing and the hidden currents of our intuition.

When I first began focusing on the development of student critical thinking skills in the early 1990s, I discussed ideas for a research project with the partner of a CPA firm. I recall being quite ...

Bangladesh routinely laments the absence of critical thinking among its graduates, yet rarely confronts the systemic failures that prevent its development. From rote-driven primary schooling to theory ...