From confined spaces to cutting-edge aircraft, failures to align risk perception with reality can have catastrophic consequences. What steps can close the gap to improve safety outcomes. The gap ...

When longtime Belltown resident Tracy Roberts began to complete the new Seattle Police Department public survey, she noticed something odd: The questions from the crime survey focused on her ...

Understanding the gaps between reality and perception of digital health technologies is key to identifying how it can best be used. That was the aim of the recently released Future Health Index, a ...

It is always fascinating, and sometimes exhausting, when a debate or spirited discussion reaches the point where opinion, personal experience, or perception quietly crosses an invisible line and ...

I explain how perception versus reality can make life feel like a lie.

A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, looking at the fields and the sky, there was a shift in my perception.

Our perception of how large or small things are in the world is systematically influenced for how we perceive distance or depth. This is most famously shown by the Ponzo Illusion (discovered by Mario ...

Michael Smerconish delivers a commentary from the Philadelphia suburbs discussing the gap between life perception and reality, particularly in the context of college education and the American Dream.

The advertised dietary supplements don’t work & I’m terrible about using the high-tech wrist device that allegedly helps make it go away.  Instead, I’ve learned to live with it.  The cliches about our ...