Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. In the story told by the Roman poet Ovid, Pygmalion is a sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has ...

In the early 1960s, a psychology experiment at the University of North Dakota involved students working with lab rats. Half were informed their rats were genetically predisposed to excel in learning ...

In 1968, two researchers, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, conducted a now famous study examining the power of expectation. The study, which could not be ethically replicated today because of the ...