In The Truman Show (1998), we see a modern parable of simulacra and hyperreality: Truman Burbank lives in a meticulously constructed, artificial reality designed for a TV audience, unaware that his ...

The colour pink doesn’t exist in the external world as a distinct wavelength of light but exists as a perception in our minds. Source: Akira Hojo | Unsplash Pink and the myth of the colour wheel Pink ...

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 ...

A dream about a butterfly in ancient China triggered debates about perception and reality for over two millennia. Source: Calvin Mano / Unsplash During the warm summer months in ancient China, the ...

Despite exuding confidence, narcissistic people relentlessly crave admiration. In other words, they are unable to convince themselves of their own brilliance. Growing research shows the gap between ...

Pundits continue puzzling over the seeming disconnect between economic reality and public perception. The reality is simple: President Joe Biden has presided over a uniquely successful economic ...

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.

Chief executive officers live in that amorphic, ever-changing space between perception and reality. There’s the business they run, which in fashion always has all of the inevitable foibles. And then ...