Seeing the extinct Tasmanian Tiger
The Tasmanian Tiger is extinct, yet people keep spotting it. Is it really still lurking out there, or is something else going on?
psychology
Psychology – The Greta Thunberg Effect
The @GretaThunberg Effect” is now an empirically demonstrated, peer-reviewed phenomenon. Paper in Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Dunning-Kruger
Does the Dunning-Kruger effect actually exist? Serious challenges have been raised, and yet stupid people are still often overconfident.
Why do people think the election was stolen?
Why does the idea that the election was stolen persist in some many minds dispite the complete lack of any credible evidence?
New Prebunking game – Harmony Square
The science of prebunking applies “inoculation theory” to misinformation. Does this really work, is this an effective that tool we can deploy?
Why are we attracted to Conspiracy Theories?
Why do humans get ensnared by conspiracy theories that are rather obviously not actually true at all, what is it about us that enables this?