Have you ever heard of the trolley problem? It’s a thought experiment that puts the subject at the scene of an impending disaster. A runaway trolley careens toward five people ruthlessly tied to the ...

New research shows how easily our imagined choices collapse under the weight of real consequences. Here’s why overthinking them never helps. For decades, the “trolley problem” has encouraged us to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the many lessons “The Good Place” tried to teach us, along with how to be “good” and what we owe to each other, was how to ...