What gets in the way of a productive conversation about risk communication? Being a normal human, that’s what.
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Artículos sobre Cognitive bias
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Technology exacerbates the news echo chamber, but it can also be the solution to overcoming our deep-seated psychological biases.
We like to think that our political views are well reasoned and backed by evidence. But research shows how easily we all succumb to cognitive biases to justify our own deeply held views.
If the site is increasingly where people are getting their news, what could the company do without taking up the mantle of being a final arbiter of truth?
Many sports enthusiasts are notoriously superstitious. Why is that so?
Every one of us is vulnerable to thinking that the ideas we hold dear are reasoned or principled positions. But how many of our ideas are adopted and defended as part of our tribal identity?
They gamble less with their hearts than their heads.
Money can corrupt. But that doesn’t mean all types of funding – or intentions – are the same.
You’re no mug right? Think again. We all get fooled by anchoring, and probably use it ourselves as well.
Our natural difficulties in thinking about the future, low probabilities and considering risk make many of our views about nuclear power problematic.
People find it difficult to understand the true value of loss of life when the numbers are large. For instance, a study found that people are more willing to donate money to an organisation when just one…
Urban legends get around, but we don’t really understand why. We conducted a study to explain how misinformation spreads surprisingly fast and why people feel compelled to share it. There are many urban…
Most Australians overestimate how much they are doing for the environment compared to others, and are more concerned about water shortages, pollution and household waste than climate change, a new CSIRO…
Cognitive bias modification is a new approach to treating emotional problems. It holds considerable promise for the remote delivery of mental health interventions. The story of how this new approach came…
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
