Scientists wondered if people were honest when no one was looking, so they came up with a clever test. Here’s something I wrote about the topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: As a young man, ...

Would you be embarrassed if your family and friends saw a videotape of your previous year 24/7? From the time artists begin studying their craft, they concern themselves with the “values” of colors.

As a young man, my dad came upon a lost wallet with a very large sum of cash inside. “What did you do?” I asked. “I looked around for its owner for quite a while. But there was nobody in sight. So I ...