STARKVILLE, Miss.—“The Earth’s crust is like a multi-layered cake” is just one analogy educators use to teach students about the complex layers of the Earth. Now a Mississippi State University ...

Researchers who study belief dynamics often use analogies to understand and model the complex cognitive-social systems that underlie why we believe the things we do and how those beliefs can change ...

As we mentioned earlier in this series, one of the goals of these articles is to help forum members separate productive debates from flame wars. If this our goal, we have an obvious challenge: what do ...