Media reports are starting to directly connect climate change to its weather effects in local communities. But how you respond to those linkages depends on what you already think about climate change.
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We rely on depth to perceive objects, but not all of us see depth in the same way.
It’s a psychological quirk that when something becomes rarer, people may spot it in more places than ever. What is the ‘concept creep’ that lets context change how we categorize the world around us?
Information on social media can be misleading because of biases in three places – the brain, society and algorithms. Scholars are developing ways to identify and display the effects of these biases.
Under some circumstances, people may feel wealthier than they actually are and this makes them psychologically more prone to increase their spending, as well as their borrowing.
Cognitive psychologists know the way our minds work means we not only don’t notice errors and misinformation we know are wrong, we also then remember them as true.
Can a computer model correctly predict the results of the first round in this year’s tournament? These mathematicians think so.
Mental short-cuts guide our everyday decision-making. Unfortunately, five biases can lead us to deny responsibility for our poor decisions and are creating problems for share-bike schemes.
Lay workers are being trained to help Zimbabwe manage mental issues in communities. So far it’s proving successful.
Feel like something will be easy to remember? Your prediction may be influenced by how clearly the information was presented in the first place.
The next financial crisis might be caused not by greed, but a human bias towards safety.
For 30 years, sports fans have been told to forget about streaks because the ‘hot hand’ is a fallacy. But a reanalysis says not so fast: Statistics show players really are in the zone sometimes.
If someone sees or hears something they don’t want to believe…they probably won’t believe it.
What gets in the way of a productive conversation about risk communication? Being a normal human, that’s what.
Technology exacerbates the news echo chamber, but it can also be the solution to overcoming our deep-seated psychological biases.
We like to think that our political views are well reasoned and backed by evidence. But research shows how easily we all succumb to cognitive biases to justify our own deeply held views.
If the site is increasingly where people are getting their news, what could the company do without taking up the mantle of being a final arbiter of truth?
Many sports enthusiasts are notoriously superstitious. Why is that so?
Every one of us is vulnerable to thinking that the ideas we hold dear are reasoned or principled positions. But how many of our ideas are adopted and defended as part of our tribal identity?
They gamble less with their hearts than their heads.
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
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Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
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Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
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Lecturer in Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
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Director of the African Mental Health Research iInitiative, University of Zimbabwe
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Associate Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor (hon) at the Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Social Innovation, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Doctoral Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California, Davis
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Director/Psychologist, The Oaks Health & Psychology; Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University