Some people lack awareness of their surroundings and overlook how their actions impact others. That's why people with actual ...

250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?

Common sense might not be so common after all, new research has found. What one person might consider common sense might be very different to someone else, a new study in the journal Proceedings of ...

Good morning. It's not easy to quantify a person's common sense, let alone inject that trait into new models of artificial intelligence. But, some new research may provide key insights on the matter.

While each person tends to have their own definition of what collective "common sense" actually is — and believes that they have it — researchers agree that true common sense stems from the ...

This story originally published on Oct. 22, 2025. The idea of "common sense" has been central to American politics since the founding of the United States. Politicians still use the phrase all the ...

That is how Donald Trump, early in his Inaugural Address, described the principle, or at least the slogan, that would animate his second term. It’s an exquisitely Trumpian formulation — tying the ...

Having common sense helps people understand the world around them and identify what they need to do to succeed. However, when someone doesn't have common sense, they find simple tasks more challenging ...