The last several decades have seen sweeping changes to the kinds of technology available to consumers. It's easy to forget, as we fiddle...

You've probably heard the old truism about how time is the only non-renewable resource. Though this saying has the superficial air of...

As we've mentioned in a few recent newsletters, the ClearerThinking team is currently hard at work on a new tool designed to help users...

About a month ago, ClearerThinking founder Spencer Greenberg appeared on the podcast Rationally Speaking. Hosted by Center For Applied...

Over the past year or so, we've occasionally discussed 80,000 Hours — a charitable organization that aims to help people find careers...

Since 1972, the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center has conducted a massive biennial survey of American attitudes...

We've occasionally mentioned in recent updates that ClearerThinking is developing a free tool designed to help users change their daily...

We've occasionally mentioned in recent updates that ClearerThinking is currently developing a free tool designed to help users change...

This post is part of an occasional ongoing series about the forces driving political partisanship in the United States, based on original...

We often feel that our beliefs define who we are — they certainly play a large role in determining our values, goals and behaviors. And...

Over the past few weeks, we've written a couple of times about ClearerThinking founder Spencer Greenberg's research into American...

Modern life is so busy that it can be hard to keep track of time. We spend so much of our days running from responsibility to...

Trying to become a better person is always worthwhile, and many people find the beginning of a new calendar year to be a useful starting...

Several weeks ago, we wrote up some of our survey-based research into the way that Clinton voters and Trump voters think about honesty...

We here at ClearerThinking strongly believe that learning to become more rational is a matter of changing your mental habits. In an...

Evolution has given us a default tendency to come up with just one explanation for the events we observe, even those for which there...

Some have argued that voting is irrational, since the only time it technically changes the election results is if there is a tie. But as...

In short, the Sunk Cost Fallacy is a broad category of error in which irretrievable past expenses distort your reasoning about the...

The 2016 U.S. election cycle has been among the longest, nastiest, and most divisive in the country's history. The partisan divide...

Most people know that it's important to learn from their mistakes — doing so helps you become a more flexible thinker, and naturally...