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You have evolved to tap into the wisdom of the crowds. But on social media, your cognitive biases can lead you astray, something organized disinformation campaigns count on.

Set of exercises aimed at helping people avoid common cognitive fallacies (e.g. correlation vs. causation).

Cybercriminals take advantage of the unconscious processes that we all use to make decision making more efficient. Blame it on our “lizard brains.”

Because thinking is hard.

Commentary: Some leaders don't want a flexible remote work policy, despite surveys showing strong employee support.

They are a very particular form of deception that can build solidarity within groups

Starting out the year 2021 by looking back at the year 2020 might seem like an exercise in masochism, given the horrific loss of life, the untold economic hardships, the resurgence of white supremacy across the country, and the rampant (and at times utterly incomprehensible) political chaos packed into those 12 months. There were, however, many redeeming aspects of the year, not least of which was a panoply of breathtaking scientific achievements. The development of not just one but several remarkably effective vaccines against COVID-19, a hitherto completely unknown virus, in less than 12 months was unprecedented (and was among the reasons Oxford Languages chose “unprecedented” as one of its choices for “word of the year,” https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/). But even beyond assembling, with astonishing rapidity, the body of knowledge required for successful vaccine development, the scientific community across a broad span of disciplines continued to discover and innovate with inspiring resilience. Like so many other journals, PNAS experienced a surge in manuscript submissions—an increase of about 20% for the year, in fact, resulting in the publication of more than 3,600 research articles this year, compared with ∼3,250 last year.    Fig. 1.  Coronavirus illustration. Image credit: Shutterstock/Lightspring.    It should surprise no one that, of the 30 most highly cited of the 3,600+ published papers, 90% were COVID-related. The 10% of highly cited papers that were unrelated to COVID-19, however, represented major advances on other critical fronts. Two studies (1, 2) addressed climate change, a more slow-moving existential threat to human existence that was clearly not forgotten during the pandemic. Also remaining a high priority was an aspect of racial and economic injustice that strikes at the core of the scientific enterprise, with one paper (3) reporting the results of a study aimed at narrowing achievement gaps in underrepresented minority undergraduates in STEM fields. …

Discusses social proof.

Persuasive media that hits all the anxiety triggers.

Humans are hardwired to make mental mistakes called cognitive biases. Here are common biases that can shape political opinion, and even elections.

The current pandemic has affected some countries more than others, partly because they have been slow to react to the crisis. That, it turns out, is a very human response.

A consumer behavior researcher explains why toilet paper shelves are bare.

Study participants wore a wireless EEG headset and were asked to read political news headlines in a Facebook feed and determine their credibility.

Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.