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How our addiction to safety could lead to another financial crisis
The next financial crisis might be caused not by greed, but a human bias towards safety.
Why each side of the partisan divide thinks the other is living in an alternate reality
If someone sees or hears something they don't want to believe...they probably won't believe it.
Why don’t people get it? Seven ways that communicating risk can fail
What gets in the way of a productive conversation about risk communication? Being a normal human, that's what.
How to check if you’re in a news echo chamber – and what to do about it
Technology exacerbates the news echo chamber, but it can also be the solution to overcoming our deep-seated psychological biases.
From ‘fascists’ to ‘feminazis’: how both sides of politics are biased in their political thinking
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.
Three ways Facebook could reduce fake news without resorting to censorship
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?
Why people love to delude themselves with sports rituals and superstitions
Many sports enthusiasts are notoriously superstitious. Why is that so?
How tribal thinking has left us in a post-truth world
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?
People with autism make more logical decisions
They gamble less with their hearts than their heads.
What do sugar and climate change have in common? Misplaced scepticism of the science
Money can corrupt. But that doesn't mean all types of funding – or intentions – are the same.
The science behind our bargain hunting foolishness
You're no mug right? Think again. We all get fooled by anchoring, and probably use it ourselves as well.
Three problems with the way we think about nuclear power
Our natural difficulties in thinking about the future, low probabilities and considering risk make many of our views about nuclear power problematic.
How huge disasters can play tricks on the way we value life
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…
This is why some urban legends go viral
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 ‘green’ they really are
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…
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