Remember debate class in high school, where you had to come up with a prepared argument with supporting points and research? Well, if you've got a presentation looming ahead that's going to make or ...

Study finds repeating instructions improves argument evaluation. People got modestly better at spotting flawed claims with ...

A TEDx Talk by Niro Sivanathan, associate professor of organizational behavior at London Business School, reveals something quite different. The opposite, in fact. Leveraging several examples — sales ...

In an iconic sketch by the British comedy troupe Monty Python, a man visits an Argument Clinic, prepared to pay for the pleasure of some brainy give-and-take. He gets instead an arguer who denies ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats have a strong argument on why there is a need for hiking the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. (Feb. 25) After winning Citrus Bowl MVP like his uncle ...

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. ~ Schopenhauer Textbooks of social psychology have chapters on “persuasion” or “attitude change,” but no chapter on how to win ...

In the current squabble on the liberal/progressive/left side of the fence over so-called “cancel culture”—in which one open letter in favor of freedom of expression led to a rebuttal open letter in ...

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After having presented scores of appellate oral arguments over the years, on Tuesday, Oct. 10, I will be presenting my very first oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. The court will hear oral ...

There is a "strong argument" for putting video cameras in airline cockpits to assist in accident investigations, the head of global aviation industry group IATA said Wednesday.