People often try to seem confident and certain in their message so it will be trusted and acted upon. But when information is in flux, research suggests you should be open about what you don’t know.
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Sometimes it feels like everybody on social media is fighting about what’s “right” and what’s “wrong”. Well, figuring out why we all have such unique opinions is now helping experts tackle fake news.
A report has discovered that while students born after 1980 have good digital skills, they need to think more critically about what they read online.
Scientific discoveries have moulded modern society. But the reliability of scientific results have recently been called into question. How will scientists solve this problem?
This is the second article in a series, How we make decisions, which explores our decision-making processes. How well do we consider all factors involved in a decision, and what helps and what holds us…
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Associate Professor in Economics, University of Southampton
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Lecturer in History Education, Macquarie University
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Digital Learning, Macquarie University
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Professor of Biogeochemistry, Director of the Cabot Institute, University of Bristol
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Professor of Psychology, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
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Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University
