Your brain's built-in biases insulate your beliefs from contradictory facts
Cognitive shortcuts help you efficiently move through a complicated world. But they come with an unwelcome side effect: Facts aren't necessarily enough to change your mind.
Jay Maddock, Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University •
conversation
Dec. 1, 2020 • ~8 min
Dec. 1, 2020 • ~8 min
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Why our obsession with happy endings can lead to bad decisions
Shakespeare was wrong when he wrote 'all's well that ends well'.
Martin D. Vestergaard, Computational Neuroscientist, University of Cambridge •
conversation
Nov. 2, 2020 • ~7 min
Nov. 2, 2020 • ~7 min
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Coronavirus shows how to get people to act on climate change – here’s the psychology
To fight climate change, we need to take people's cognitive biases into account.
Laura McGuire, Research Fellow in Education, Edge Hill University •
conversation
July 29, 2020 • ~7 min
July 29, 2020 • ~7 min
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