We live in a world where truth is often malleable, where what’s real isn’t always what people believe. It’s a world where ...

This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. The pilgrim wasn’t sure he’d make it to the Chapel of Grace. It was agony to walk at all, let alone endure the 70 ...

People tend to make connections between mystical thinking and real-life events, even when it’s not rational. Of course, some of this is animistic thinking, with the belief that the supernatural ...

People’s wish to see the world as just and orderly sometimes leads them to harm those who have already suffered injustice, according to Daniel P. Skarlicki and R. Anthony Turner of the ...