Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Seems like everyone these days has an endless supply of ...

College students make up a lot of excuses. Just ask Pauline Sliwa, PhD, a fellow in philosophy at the Cambridge University and the author of a recent paper on excuses. She has spent a lot of time ...

Mashable’s Ranked series crowns the best and sorts the rest. Sometimes the combination of couch, sweatpants, and [insert latest binge-worthy show] is too strong. Sometimes you have a genuine excuse, ...

At some point in our lives, we’ve all tried to come up with a believable excuse instead of accepting defeat and telling the truth. Some people are good at it, while others crack under pressure and ...

Might a root cause of your problems or of someone you care about be caused by what I call excuse-making syndrome? Successful and contented people, while acknowledging that external factors often play ...

All those resolutions, all those reasons why we never quite manage to accomplish what we set out to so. Excuses, excuses! Our Cover Story comes from Susan Spencer of "48 Hours": Navy veteran Ryan ...

From the beginning of time, two things have been constant with humans: we hate doing work and we love to make up excuses; however, something that is new to the past few decades is using mental health ...