If someone sees or hears something they don’t want to believe…they probably won’t believe it.
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Researchers have found that today’s students, despite being ‘digital natives,’ have a hard time distinguishing what is real and what is fake online. Metaliteracy might provide the answers.
An intense night of study won’t help you remember information in the long-term – and the stress of revising under pressure will likely impact on your sleep and thus your exam performance.
We now have access to an Internet containing a vast store of information much bigger than any individual brain can carry - and that’s not always a good thing.
Consciousness is one of the most mysterious phenomena we know of. But evidence is emerging that it might just be a very special kind of information processing.
Libraries and archives have dealt with threats for centuries, but the growth of digital networks has created new hazards.
Our gut reactions to controversial issues like hydraulic fracturing can be powerful, but information can still change our minds.
The way schools and universities teach and test has to keep up with the way young people are processing information.
How much money does the government spend on producing information? How many people are engaged in this? We don’t know the answers - here’s why we should.
Human brain cells are able to include spatial information in their memories, which enables people to recall experiences that…
Most people judge a task’s difficulty based on how easily they can understand the instructions. What if product information…
Obama is a Muslim, vaccinations cause autism, asylum seekers are breaking the law, GM foods cause cancer. These are all pieces of unsubstantiated misinformation that are commonly encountered on TV, talk-back…
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