Information on social media can be misleading because of biases in three places – the brain, society and algorithms. Scholars are developing ways to identify and display the effects of these biases.
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Under some circumstances, people may feel wealthier than they actually are and this makes them psychologically more prone to increase their spending, as well as their borrowing.
Can a computer model correctly predict the results of the first round in this year's tournament? These mathematicians think so.
Mental short-cuts guide our everyday decision-making. Unfortunately, five biases can lead us to deny responsibility for our poor decisions and are creating problems for share-bike schemes.
Lay workers are being trained to help Zimbabwe manage mental issues in communities. So far it's proving successful.
The next financial crisis might be caused not by greed, but a human bias towards safety.
If someone sees or hears something they don't want to believe...they probably won't believe it.
What gets in the way of a productive conversation about risk communication? Being a normal human, that's what.
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…
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Edith Cowan University
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program; Director, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Social Innovation, CQUniversity Australia
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Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Sheffield
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Postdoctoral research associate, Durham University
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PhD student, Université de Bordeaux
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Research Fellow in Financial Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Information Studies, Syracuse University
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PhD Candidate in Psychology, University of Sydney
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Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
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Director of External Research for frank, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
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Research Director and Digital Strategist for frank, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
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Director of the African Mental Health Research iInitiative, University of Zimbabwe
