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Prophecy and Prophetic Standards

June 30, 2024May 3, 2021 by Dave
prophecy and prophetic standards

What happens to those deeply invested in a belief when prophecy fails in a very spectacular and pubic manner, do they let go or double down?

Categories psychology, religion Tags prophecy, prophetic standards Leave a comment

Seeing the extinct Tasmanian Tiger

March 22, 2021 by Dave
The Tasmanian Tiger - The Thylacine

The Tasmanian Tiger is extinct, yet people keep spotting it. Is it really still lurking out there, or is something else going on?

Categories psychology, science Tags Tasmanian Tiger, Thylacine Leave a comment

Psychology – The Greta Thunberg Effect

May 20, 2024January 27, 2021 by Dave
Greta Thunberg

The @GretaThunberg Effect” is now an empirically demonstrated, peer-reviewed phenomenon. Paper in Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Categories Activism, Climate Change, People, psychology, science Tags Greta Thunberg, Greta Thunberg Effect, psychology Leave a comment

Dunning-Kruger

August 10, 2023January 4, 2021 by Dave
dunning-kruger

Does the Dunning-Kruger effect actually exist? Serious challenges have been raised, and yet stupid people are still often overconfident.

Categories psychology Tags cognitive bias, Dunning-Kruger Leave a comment

Why do people think the election was stolen?

December 7, 2020 by Dave
election

Why does the idea that the election was stolen persist in some many minds dispite the complete lack of any credible evidence?

Categories Critical Thinking, politics, psychology, religion Tags election, stop the steal Leave a comment

New Prebunking game – Harmony Square

March 4, 2024November 16, 2020 by Dave
prebunking

The science of prebunking applies “inoculation theory” to misinformation. Does this really work, is this an effective that tool we can deploy?

Categories Critical Thinking, psychology, science, study Tags disinformation, fake-news, misinformation, prebunking Leave a comment
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