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Time pressure reduces misinformation discrimination ability but does not alter response bias
Scientific Reports, 2022 Many parts of our social lives are speeding up, a process known as social acceleration. How social acceleration impacts people’s ability to judge the veracity of online news, and ultimately the spread of misinformation, is largely unknown.
Mubashir Sultan +5 more
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How experts’ own inconsistency relates to their confidence and between-expert disagreement
Scientific Reports, 2022 People routinely rely on experts’ advice to guide their decisions. However, experts are known to make inconsistent judgments when judging the same case twice.
Aleksandra Litvinova +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has seen one of the first large-scale uses of digital contact tracing to track a chain of infection and contain the spread of a virus.
Anastasia Kozyreva +6 more
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Boosting people’s ability to detect microtargeted advertising
Scientific Reports, 2021 Online platforms’ data give advertisers the ability to “microtarget” recipients’ personal vulnerabilities by tailoring different messages for the same thing, such as a product or political candidate.
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen +5 more
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Rationality, reasons, and rules [PDF]
, 2022 H.-J. Glock has made important contributions to discussions of rationality, reasons, and rules. This chapter addresses four conceptions of rationality that Glock identifies.
Hooker, Brad
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 People rely on data-driven AI technologies nearly every time they go online, whether they are shopping, scrolling through news feeds, or looking for entertainment.
Anastasia Kozyreva +4 more
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Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 Misinformation presents a significant societal problem. To measure individuals’ susceptibility to misinformation and study its predictors, researchers have used a broad variety of ad-hoc item sets, scales, question framings, and response modes.
Jon Roozenbeek +6 more
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RATIONAL DISTANCES WITH RATIONAL ANGLES [PDF]
Mathematika, 2011 In 1946 Erd\H os asked for the maximum number of unit distances, $u(n)$, among $n$ points in the plane. He showed that $u(n)> n^{1+c/\log\log n}$ and conjectured that this was the true magnitude. The best known upper bound is $u(n)
Schwartz, Ryan +2 more
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Concurrent visual working memory bias in sequential integration of approximate number
Scientific Reports, 2021 Previous work has shown bidirectional crosstalk between Working Memory (WM) and perception such that the contents of WM can alter concurrent percepts and vice versa. Here, we examine WM-perception interactions in a new task setting.
Zhiqi Kang, Bernhard Spitzer
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Age-related differences in strategic competition
Scientific Reports, 2021 Understanding how people of different ages decide in competition is a question of theoretical and practical importance. Using an experimental laboratory approach, this research investigates the ability of younger and older adults to think and act ...
Sebastian S. Horn +3 more
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