psychology was largely dominated by psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humanism. Eventually, a formal field of study devoted solely to the study of cognition emerged as part of the “cognitive revolution” of the 1960s. The field of psychology concerned with the study of cognition is known as cogni...
We also need resources urgently for studying how things like your perception of confidence in a model impacts the degree to which it's able to distort your beliefs and the degree to which bias is transmitted to you. We know what to expect, generally, from decades of psychology research. Tha...
Social psychologyCognitive psychology What You See is What You Forget| Alcohol Cue ExposureAffectand the Misinformation Effect STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY Ronald Friedman BarnesCamille CrockenPrevious research has suggested that both alcohol cues and positive affect increase the tendency to ...
This common phenomenon contributes to the spread of misinformation onsocial media. As an untruth shared online reaches people’s feeds again and again, the mere repetition may lead them to consider it to be factual. Propagandists and other bad actors understand that the frequent reiteration of the...
Halo effect. The tendency for a person's impression in one area to influence an opinion in another area. Hindsight bias.The tendency to interpret past events as more predictable than they actually were. Misinformation effect.The tendency for information that appears after an event to interfere wit...
Citizens must cultivate a robust civic culture, fostering a society where they can exert influence on their government. There need to be laws that discourage misinformation and legal avenues to counter fake news, especially when it causes personal harm. ...
It was once believed that gay, lesbian, and bisexual sexual orientations were types of “mental disorders” often caused by sexual abuse during childhood and troubled adult relationships. However, this has been shown to be false and based mainly on misinformation and prejudice against so-called “...
denial of facts by those in power in an effort to control the narrative and manipulate public opinion. The goal is to create confusion, sow division, and undermine trust in facts and institutions. This tactic can be seen in the form of denying facts, spreading misinformation, and shifting ...
. This is really annoying because it's one of the few forums that has people qualified to explain where the hole in the argument is, everywhere else it's just people guessing. If we had a policy like that then we'd have the ban everyone involved in the Electroboom / Walter Lewin ...
You’re doing homework and a hard question appears. You don’t know the answer. Many students will reach for their smart phones to look up the answer online. While convenient(方便的), is this a good study method? Arnold Glass, a psychology professor in the US, carried out a study on ...