Women aren’t naive to how hard life can be. They just choose to believe that effort counts for something. Whether it’s ...

In previous work, we proposed that studying delusions provides unique insights into the cognitive nature of belief and its dysfunction.

A new study from Simon Fraser University researchers has found a close link between high levels of social media use and psychiatric disorders that involve delusions, such as narcissism and body ...

Delusional countries usually end in repression, misery, impoverishment and war. Americans are currently being asked to believe in a great number of fantastic ideas.

Unlike a cult, there is no charismatic leader or enforced isolation from society, Parker said. “The definition of a delusion is a fixed false belief, and that’s what sovereign citizens have,” Parker ...

Thinking irrationally isn’t synonymous with being wrong, although they’re obviously related. Unlike the latter, irrationality isn’t normally open to reason (i.e., the use of good evidence ...

To be delusional is to be characterized by or holding false beliefs or judgments about reality that are held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. And, according to Richard Foster of ...