Human social learning is increasingly occurring on online social platforms, such as Twitter,
Facebook, and TikTok. On these platforms, algorithms exploit existing social-learning biases …

We construct our beliefs to meet two sometimes conflicting goals: forming accurate beliefs to
inform our decisions and forming desirable beliefs that we value for their own sake. In this …

Se presenta un análisis de contenido de todos los bulos (N= 292) relacionados con la
pandemia Covid-19 identificados por las tres plataformas de verificación acreditadas en …

Vast amounts of personalized information are now available to individuals. A vital research
challenge is to establish how people decide what information they wish to obtain. Here, over …

A prominent source of polarised and entrenched beliefs is confirmation bias, where
evidence against one's position is selectively disregarded. This effect is most starkly evident …

Confirmation bias is one of the most widely discussed epistemically problematic cognitions,
challenging reliable belief formation and the correction of inaccurate views. Given its …

Purpose To describe the implicit epistemic flaw of “confirmation bias” and to illustrate and
evaluate the threats to qualitative research trustworthiness from that bias …

Why people do or do not change their beliefs has been a long-standing puzzle. Sometimes
people hold onto false beliefs despite ample contradictory evidence; sometimes they …

Monitoring of patient-reported outcomes and providing therapists with progress feedback
has been shown to be beneficial for treatment outcomes (eg, by preventing therapy failures) …

The severity and prevalence of fake news on social media (SM) are growing, which leave
detrimental effects to businesses. Therefore, understanding consumer behavior when they …