Tag: Confirmation bias
Lots of people believe in Bigfoot and other pseudoscience claims –...
Craig A. Foster, State University of New York Cortland
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series...
Lots of people believe in Bigfoot and other pseudoscience claims –...
Craig A. Foster, State University of New York College at Cortland
Uncommon Courses is an...
Inoculate yourself against election misinformation campaigns – 3 essential reads
Jeff Inglis, The Conversation
As the midterm elections approach, Americans are already being subjected to misinformation campaigns, often online,...
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...
Science denial: Why it happens and 5 things you can do...
Barbara K. Hofer, Middlebury and Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California
Science denial became deadly in 2020. Many political...
7 ways to avoid becoming a misinformation superspreader
H. Colleen Sinclair, Mississippi State University
The problem of misinformation isn’t going away. Internet platforms like Facebook and Twitter...
Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that...
Adrian Bardon, Wake Forest University
Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s...
Why the Internet isn’t making us smarter – and how to...
David Dunning, University of Michigan
In the hours since I first sat down to write this piece, my laptop tells me the National Basketball Association...
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...
