Whether we're consciously aware of it or not, most rom-coms and romances in television and film have at least some element of delusion. Fantasy isn't a bad thing; some of the most popular films of all ...

On the surface, startups and big-name brands are businesses with a similar overarching goal: to make money. But crack the exterior, and you’ll find that’s about all they have in common. While each has ...

It’s the revolution of rising expectations again. Watching Donald Trump last week, I thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French political philosopher whose “Democracy in America,” published in the ...

Television medical dramas — especially “Grey’s Anatomy” — are giving people alarmingly elevated symptoms of lofty expectations when it comes to their medical care and doctors’ bedside manner, a new ...

A delusion is a fixed, false belief which is not grounded in reality and can be a symptom of a chemical imbalance in the brain. Personally, my delusions often took the form of false expectations.

Statements in "Pilot Shortfall" by Mike Yocum, president of the Regional Airline Academy, represent misinformation that is damaging to the profession and creates false expectations. First, find me a ...