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.
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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'.
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!
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?
Was the government correct to think that adherence would fall over time? Perhaps.
Is making sense of a story more important than getting at its truth? Looking at the treatment of myth in ancient Greece may help us navigate what is true, and whether that matters.
Neither jurors nor judges can be relied upon to put aside their incorrect beliefs about rape. What's the answer?
Self-proclaimed gluten sensitivity is on the rise, and so is the stereotype that it goes along with being a politically correct progressive. But is gluten actually a good proxy for social values?
Sports fans see it all the time: two people arguing about a split-second difference in who did what. New research suggests human beings have a bias to perceive their own actions as happening sooner.
Media reports are starting to directly connect climate change to its weather effects in local communities. But how you respond to those linkages depends on what you already think about climate change.
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.
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.
Cognitive psychologists know the way our minds work means we not only don't notice errors and misinformation we know are wrong, we also then remember them as true.
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.
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Instructor of Chemistry, National University of Singapore
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Social Innovation, CQUniversity Australia
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Post-doctoral researcher in Psychology, University of Western 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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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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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
