Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much others agree with them, Cornell psychology researchers have found. The ...

Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of the well-known conversational platform ChatGPT, have proved to be very promising for summarizing and generating ...

If you believe you’ve found your soulmate, after all, you might try especially hard to make it work. Love at first sight may be a high bar to clear.

It takes wishfulness to believe a $5,000 check is in the mail because Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy. It takes foolish credulity to donate to a shadowy political group to ...

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled with ancient and symbolic rituals.

Researchers have uncovered why individuals who experience anxiety and depression often struggle with persistent low self-belief.

Leaders who break through their belief barriers show up differently for their teams, families and communities. They become more empathetic, decisive and innovative.

The New York Times is exploring how people believe now. We look at Americans’ relationship to religion, moments that shape faith and why God can be hard to talk about.

A new study has established a link between superstitious beliefs and a decreased ability to manage stress.

The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. A recent study uses well-known formalisms in statistical physics to model multiple aspects of belief ...