Motivated reasoning is the idea that our mental processes often cause us to filter the evidence we accept based on whether it’s consistent with what we want to believe. During these past few weeks, it ...

Dan Cassino’s son’s favorite color used to be purple. “He wanted purple cupcakes for his birthday,” Cassino tells Inverse. “Purple everything.” But then one day, the five-year-old came home from ...

Trump’s rise as a political outsider has been variously attributed to discontent with elites, a populist appeal, or his celebrity status. Yet a new psychological study that surveyed cultural views of ...

In the last five years, much has been made over Donald Trump's catapult from businessman and reality television star to president of the United States of America. How, exactly, did a judge of The ...