People frequently overestimate how much they know. They also confidently share things they don’t know. But why? One reason is social desirability—the motivation to appear knowledgeable in front of others and perhaps ourselves (our ability to fool ourselves deserves closer inspection). Another is that conversations are typically not

A single wheat tortilla contains 18% of the daily recommended sodium—a fact I discovered only after reading about sodium's cardiovascular risks, despite years of purchasing tortillas and regularly checking food labels. This personal observation raises a broader question: why do we systematically avoid easily accessible health information