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Cognitive Biases
If a court needs to know if two trademarks look too similar to each other, perhaps the jury should be given a brain scan.
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, "prebunking" can fight fake news.
If you want to share the truths about our Universe with others, don't fall into the trap of arguing with a misinformer. Do this instead.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
While most participants fibbed a little bit, laptop users were much more likely to lie – and by a lot more.
When you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s easier to miss it.
For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity.
Scientific journals, which are supposed to be the sacred scriptures of academia, are often full of shoddy research and misinformation.
We tend to assume our view of the world is objective and accurate rather than subjective and biased — which is what it really is.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
Psychologist Adrian Furnham has termed this effect the male hubris, female humility problem.
The very concept of a "problem with no solution" goes against human nature. But we must accept this harsh reality to have peace in our lives.
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
When actual people correct misinformation online, it can be as effective, if not more so, as when a social media company labels something as questionable.
It took a series of ingenious experiments in the 20th century to uncover some of our biggest cognitive biases.
Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
Beautiful people really know how to catch a break.
Successful constructive criticism is as much about mindset as methods.
Memory errors may actually indicate a way in which the human cognitive system is “optimal” or “rational.”
Using incomplete facts to spin a false narrative and mislead the public is the modus operandi of a political liar. “I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too […]