Governments should more frequently publish CO2 emissions data: Leveraging human psychology to fight climate change
The most recent report by the International Panel on Climate Change (2018) states the danger very clearly: urgent action is required to avoid possible climate disaster. The primary cause of global
Are liberals too dumb to understand this? Virtue signaling in the age of outrage advertising
Through our newsfeeds and social media, we are constantly confronted with articles and headlines (like the headline of this piece) that have been deliberately designed to provoke outrage and attract
The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
As a professional cognitive scientist, I usually conduct experiments on other people. However I recently carried out a somewhat unique experiment on myself. In this, I switched the political orient
Does replication matter? The case for conceptual replication and strong inference
Recent findings from a massive collaborative project (OSF, 2015), attempting to replicate many of the findings published in top psychology journals, have suggested that roughly half of these fail to
Why reading minds is not like reading words
Written by Brent Strickland and Pierre Jacob.
In a recent review paper in Science (2014. 344-6190) entitled “The cultural evolution of mind reading,” Cecilia Heyes and Chris Frith argue that