nationalism fi rst, including Republican candidate for the US presidency, Donald Trump, and the leader of the French Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen. Like the Leave campaign in the UK, both are offering simplistic pseudosolutions to the complex problems of today’s world, thus offering comfort to voters who may feel left behind by the rapid changes of modern times. If Trump were to be elected...

We were pleased to see the recent News article about breast cancer gene micro-arrays (1). This discussion of a recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) (2) concludes that " biology may trump anatomy " regarding the

Indirectresponsetotheriseinfakenewsasasocio-culturalandpoliticalphenomenon,thisarticle presentsananalysisofthefactorsthatmayhelptoexplainthereceptionoffakenews.Inaddition, recentpronouncementsmadebytheTrumpWhiteHouseseemtochallengethenatureofanobjective truth.Animmersivenarratologyemphasizesthatdifferentuniversesofdiscoursecanintermi...

This paper is focused on a Double Dummy Bridge Problem (DDBP) which consists in answering the question of how many tricks are to be taken by a pair of players assuming perfect play of all four sides with all cards being revealed. Several experiments are also presented in a variant of DDBP in which the information about to whom of the two players in a given pair a particular card belongs to is h...

People believe that future others' preferences and beliefs will change to align with their own. People holding a particular view (e.g., support of President Trump) are more likely to believe that future others will share their view than to believe that future others will have an opposing view (e.g., opposition to President Trump). Six studies demonstrated this belief in a favorable future (BFF)...