Tag: Cognitive psychology
Cognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change...
Keith M. Bellizzi, University of Connecticut
“Facts First” is the tagline of a CNN branding campaign which contends that...
Are brain games mostly BS?
Walter Boot, Florida State University
You’ve probably seen ads for apps promising to make you smarter in just a few minutes a day. Hundreds of...
Why your brain never runs out of problems to find
David Levari, Harvard University
Why do many problems in life seem to stubbornly stick around, no matter how hard people work to fix them? It...
Why you stink at fact-checking
Lisa Fazio, Vanderbilt University
Here’s a quick quiz for you:
In the biblical story, what was Jonah swallowed by?
How many animals of each kind did Moses...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
