Eric Horowitz

Recent psychological research suggests a new way to frame the ongoing situation in Syria is to get certain groups of Americans to support opening our borders.

• By Eric Horowitz

How technology could help to engender a meaningful amateur industry with the potential to convert new ideas into empirical findings.

• By Eric Horowitz

It may seem reasonable for on-air talent to fill airtime with speculation and predictions, but it’s more difficult for us to correct that sort of misinformation later on.

• By Eric Horowitz

Attempting to change the status quo is not merely about changing perceptions.

• By Eric Horowitz

We should re-think the subject boundaries in high school education so that they align with important ideas and concepts that will give our children useful analytical lenses for viewing the world.

• By Eric Horowitz

Researchers may have pinpointed the exact moment when we start to transition away from carefree kids, unafraid to perform in public or of what others may think of us.

• By Eric Horowitz

We look for an emotional fit between our physicians and ourselves—and right now, that’s the best we can do.

• By Eric Horowitz

There’s a psychological explanation for the weak punishment given to Ray Rice before a video surfaced that made a re-evaluation unavoidable.

• By Eric Horowitz

Recent research on honor culture, associated with the American South and characterized by the need to retaliate against any perceived improper conduct, goes way beyond conventional situations involving disputes and aggression.

• By Eric Horowitz

Forget how friends, family, and others feel. People even tend to view their partners more favorably than their partners view themselves.

• By Eric Horowitz

Thanks in part to the work of Hanns Scharff and a slew of studies on interrogation techniques, we know it’s best to be genuinely friendly no matter who you’re trying to get information out of.

• By Eric Horowitz

Teachers receive salary and pension benefits later in their careers, which works to the advantage of many, including the unions that lead them, but this rewards structure could be keeping lots of talented individuals out of the classrooms.

• By Eric Horowitz

New research into evaluative simulation shows how we instinctively dislike certain actions deemed to be harmful regardless of their outcomes.

• By Eric Horowitz

Fear of the criminal justice system can lead to negative health, financial, and educational outcomes.

• By Eric Horowitz

Startling new research suggests that conservative opposition to immigration reform may have nothing to do with what’s presented in any legislative bill, but rather how small differences in the way we think about multiculturalism can alter broad attitudes.

• By Eric Horowitz

And why you can expect more off-color and out-of-touch commentary like Tom Perkins’ op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that warned of a “Progressive Kristallnacht.”

• By Eric Horowitz

The way that we mentally account for the inheritance from a loved one might keep us from ever putting that money to work.

• By Eric Horowitz

America is a place where the majority of athletic competitions go unseen, and the majority of athletes uncelebrated. What does it say about us that we continue to compete anyway?

• By Eric Horowitz

What does identifying as an independent tell us about how somebody will vote? As it turns out, not much. Research suggests this is a (surprisingly large) group that’s focused more on image than policy.

• By Eric Horowitz

A new pair of studies helps to explain why city-dwellers seem to fall deeper in love with the urban environment the longer they spend there.

• By Eric Horowitz

We may not approve of the jobs they're doing, but we're also unlikely to take a risk by replacing our elected representatives—especially when economic times are tough.

• By Eric Horowitz

There's more than just cognitive dissonance at work here.

• By Eric Horowitz

New research unravels the difficult relationship between motivation and choice. Without a feeling of competence, it turns out, the presence of choice can drive people away from a given task.

• By Eric Horowitz

Most Americans believe in meritocracy, even when it goes against their own self-interest.

• By Eric Horowitz

Gun control? Abortion? The new social science behind why you're never able to convince friends or foes to even consider things from your side.

• By Eric Horowitz