To help increase trust in vaccines, researchers analyzed data on adverse events to address safety concerns, and then used cognitive science to show how cognitive biases feed vaccine hesitancy.
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It’s human nature to unconsciously rely on quick rules to help make spur-of-the-moment decisions. New research finds physicians use these shortcuts, too, which can be bad news for some patients.
You have evolved to tap into the wisdom of the crowds. But on social media, your cognitive biases can lead you astray, something organized disinformation campaigns count on.
You have evolved to tap into the wisdom of the crowds. But on social media your cognitive biases can lead you astray, something organized disinformation campaigns count on.
You have evolved to tap into the wisdom of the crowds. But on social media your cognitive biases can lead you astray.
A society in crisis is more than the sum of its flawed parts.
Discrimination against job applicants with ethnic minority, “foreign” names is still endemic.
Bias is a psychological process detectable in individual judgements. Noise is a different phenomenon affecting human decisions.
Whenever you hear about a new bit of science news, these suggestions will help you assess whether it’s more fact or fiction.
Philosophy can help us see how some of the implicit beliefs we hold about work are mere myths. Success isn’t always due to effort, and the idea some jobs are more shameful to have than others.
Cognitive shortcuts help you efficiently move through a complicated world. But they come with an unwelcome side effect: Facts aren’t necessarily enough to change your mind.
If you’re struggling to cut back on the booze, your subconscious brain may be over-riding your conscious brain. A new form of brain training targets our subconscious tendencies towards alcohol.
Shakespeare was wrong when he wrote ‘all’s well that ends well’.
Framing cats as responsible for declines in biodiversity is based on faulty scientific logic and fails to account for the real culprit – human activity.
To fight climate change, we need to take people’s cognitive biases into account.
Recognising our cognitive biases and avoid them will help us make sounder decisions, and therefore, a better decision for our country!
The US and other countries have a legal definition of citizenship, yet human psychology and identity politics result in ingrained biases over who truly belongs.
Cognitive biases often lead us to irrational behaviours such as hoarding toilet paper.
Instead of debunking false claims, psychology shows promoting the facts is a more effective way to fight the spread of misinformation.
Right now, physical distancing is the most important preventive strategy we have against COVID-19. So why is it so hard for us to do what’s right?
Principales colaboradores
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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National University of Singapore
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Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
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Lecturer in Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Lecturer, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Social Innovation, CQUniversity Australia
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Research Fellow, College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Sheffield
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor, School of Sociology; Geary Fellow, Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin
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Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Winchester
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PhD student, Université de Bordeaux
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Provost Professor of Psychology and Marketing and co-director of the Dornsife Mind & Society Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews
