Bias

Say it Enough, They’ll Believe It

如果你经常重复一件事,人们更有可能相信它。这就是所谓的虚幻真相效应。这种情况可能发生在聪明人身上,甚至当人们已经知道这种说法是错误的时候。那么,为什么重复某件事会让人们更容易相信它呢?

Naïve Racism

Social psychology has shown that people tend to generalize on incidents of good behavior for their in-group, but generalize on bad behavior for members of out-groups. This tendency leads to a form of racism I call "naïve" because the racist person has no idea that their minds are operating this way.

Your Racist Mental Habits

大量研究表明,即使自称为非种族主义者,也可能对黑人存在隐性偏见。对于如何看待这种“内隐”现象的本质,人们没有多少共识,但有一种可能性是,我们的种族偏见最好被理解为一种感知习惯。

Does Thinking Help Stop Fake News?

What makes people susceptible to fake news? Does reasoning tend to lead to less bias or more distorted beliefs? In other words, are people who are reflective more or less likely to be suckers for fake news? This question has resulted in a wide-ranging debate with two camps.

Enlightenment Peddlers

Because the IDW thrives on consumer popularity rather than peer scrutiny, it doesn’t have mechanisms for sorting out the worthwhile stuff from the trash. The burden is on the consumer to decide to what extent the dark web pundits have something valuable to offer or to what extent they’re "enlightenment peddlers."