Political Ads Can Target Your Personality. Here's What Could Go Wrong
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This banner year for elections worldwide may witness the arrival of advertising tailored to your personality
This banner year for elections worldwide may witness the arrival of advertising tailored to your personality
The global Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022 shows that trust in news has declined in almost half the countries…
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine, misinformation is rife worldwide. Many tools have been designed to help…
Here's how we can fight back.
Have you ever tried to change someone’s mind about a topic, only to find yourself failing miserably? Is it worth it? Well, it…
People appear more willing to boycott a retailer in response to a video message about a consumer’s experience of injustice…
Black people are seen as more credible speaking on issues of racial injustice. Scott Olson/Getty Images Anne Hamby, Boise…
Why misinformation is appealing and how to correct it.
Misinformation campaigns spread like wildfire online. They render people unwitting pawns. Are you able to spot misinformation…
Basol M, Roozenbeek J, Berriche M, Uenal F, McClanahan WP, Linden S van der. Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural…
Anti-vaccination groups are projected to dominate social media in the next decade if left unchallenged. To counter their viral…
Misinformation is endemic in our society, but it is not a new problem. Misinformation passed along with or without an ulterior…
A holiday guide to navigating the deep swamp of polluted information.
As New Zealand holds its breath waiting to find out the extent of the latest cases of COVID-19 community transmission, it’s…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began work in April with a committee of outside experts to devise a…
Today, UCS launched a new online resource with tips on how to spot and stop the spread of disinformation around COVID-19.
Letter to the Cell Biology Community: We are facing a serious issue in our society: the avalanche of misinformation with which…
Our health information needs and preferences vary greatly. We are increasingly turning to digital and social media for health…
It is to get rid of non-productive Chinese in the Chinese community, who are non-productive and in the words of George Bernard…
It should be a no-brainer: your best bet is to follow those who have actual expertise -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Association for Psychological Science has made its journal research related to epidemics and related public-health issues…
The spread of fake news is a growing problem, particularly online, with serious consequences in the real world. In written…
How to tackle ‘fake news’ and the societal implications of misinformation are questions under consideration by policy makers…
‘Fake news’ and the manipulation of news media have become a fixture of the current political moment. Whereas, attempts have…
The current political climate has made talking to one another easily polarizing and adversarial. Common approaches to…
Many Americans hold beliefs about the flu vaccine that are at odds with the best available scientific evidence. For example, a…
Many Americans hold beliefs about the flu vaccine that are at odds with the best available scientific evidence. For example…
No dia 29 de julho, foi realizado o Conhecer Eleições 2018 uma série de sabatinas com, então, pré-candidatos à Presidência da…
Generally speaking, the Internet isn’t a great place to go for health advice. Search your symptoms and you’ll no doubt find an…
As some 70,000 people attended the NRA’s annual convention last week, nearly three months after the horrific school shooting in…
One of the things that's become quite obvious, in the various anti-vax comments that I've followed and responded to on line, is…
Content originally published at iBankCoin.com Facebook has abandoned it’s fake news ‘fact checkers‘ program to label articles…
After getting dragged around the time of the general election, Facebook has spent much of this year taking steps to combat the…
For conspiracy theorists, the more obscure a theory, the more appealing it becomes, satisfying their “need for uniqueness”By…
By Neil…
Next January, I’ll be relocating to the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. For a Brisbane boy…
(Photo: Minerva Studio/Shutterstock)Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once…
by Andy…
Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature…
Inoculating against science…
This is a guest post by John Cook, The University of Queensland. Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the…
Health and…
Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature…
by Andy…
How providing people with evidence about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines can backfire.Read More
Nearly half of the US population wrongly believes the flu vaccine can give you flu,but correcting this error has the opposite…
Psychological Biases Play A Part In Vaccination…
It looks as if Anthony Watts is getting his marching orders from the CATO Institute this week. First there was Paul Driessen…
How does newspaper coverage affect how we view climate change? A new report has estimated that 82% of articles about climate…
I remember the first time I realized just how easily false information gets spread about.A terrifying starry nightI was in…
As part of Brain Awareness Week, March’s SpotOn NYC (#SoNYC) event will look at the challenges
Last year I wrote a post about Spider-man, and how his anatomy may not be…err, as PG as one might wish. In less than 500 words…
Last year I wrote a post about Spider-man, and how his anatomy may not be…err, as PG as one might wish. In less than 500 words…
Some people believe all kinds of weird stuff including... ...no, actually, for a very good psychological reason I'm not going…
Last month we wrote about countering misinformation without accidentally reinforcing it. Alexis Madrigal over at the Atlantic…
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Here is one belief I'm pretty sure about: Most of us tend to be pretty sure about our beliefs. As the…
This post is online on the website of the International Cognition and Culture InstituteWhy is Misinformation so Sticky?When my…
When my mother was warning me against talking to strangers in the street, she might have had not only security concerns, but…
We’ve written before about how false information becomes accepted as truth by many of us. The proof this remains an issue is in…
Childhood vaccines now rank as one of the prime examples of botched media coverage and botched thinking. The exaggerated fears…
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck…
Back in 2009, I wrote about a paper from Schwarz et al that discussed attempts to improve decision-making and found that…
“When it’s really important to educate the public about an issue, the most reliable means we have is simple, clear messages…
There is no good reason to believe vaccines cause autism. A 1998 paper in The Lancet that championed the link was immediately…
Childhood vaccines do not cause autism. Barack Obama was born in the United States. Global warming is confirmed by science. [...…
Childhood vaccines do not cause autism. Barack Obama was born in the United States. Global warming is confirmed by science. And…
Childhood vaccines do not cause autism. Barack Obama was born in the United States. Global warming is confirmed by science. …
Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Evidence shows that vaccines do not cause autism, that global warming is actually occurring, and…
Parte final de minhas anotações sobre o artigo de Lewandowsky et al. 2012.-------------------Lewandowsky et al. 2012.
Lewandowsky et al. 2012 fazem uma revisão da literatura a respeito do processamento mental de dados inválidos (desinformações…