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Diversity of opinions promotes herding in uncertain crowds
(Royal Society Open Science, 2022)
Classic and recent studies demonstrate how we fall for the ‘tyranny of the majority' and conform to the dominant trend when uncertain. However, in many social interactions outside of the laboratory, there is rarely a clearly ...
The Open Anchoring Quest Dataset: Anchored Estimates from 96 Studies on Anchoring Effects
(Journal of Open Psychology DataUbiquity Press, 2022)
People’s estimates are biased toward previously considered numbers (anchoring).
We have aggregated all available data from anchoring studies that included at
least two anchors into one large dataset. Data were standardized ...
Attraction by ingroup coherence drives the emergence of ideological sorting
(2023)
The increasing political polarization is driving hatred and segregation, and these pose a threat to democracy. While disagreement on policy issues is increasing and receiving great attention, people are also becoming more ...
Bridging psychology and mathematics : can the brain understand the brain?
(2004-09-14)
We are told scientists are divided into experimentalists and theoreticians. The dialectic description of the dynamics of science, with one tribe gathering data and collecting evidence and another tribe providing form to ...
Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2023)
The discourse of political leaders often contains false information that can misguide the public. Fact-checking agencies around the world try to reduce the negative influence of politicians by verifying their words. However, ...
Partisanship predicts COVID-19 vaccine brand preference: the case of Argentina
(Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Humanit Soc Sci Commun) ISSN 2662-9992 (online), 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the significance of overcoming vaccine adoption
resistance and addressing real and perceived barriers for efficient vaccination campaigns.
One major problem faced by health systems around ...
Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
(2012-06-12)
Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement ...
The Spatial and Temporal Construction of Confidence in the Visual Scene
(2009-03-17)
Human subjects can report many items of a cluttered field a few hundred milliseconds after stimulus presentation. This memory decays rapidly and after a second only 3 or 4 items can be stored in working memory. Here we ...
The neural basis of decision-making and reward processing in adults with euthymic bipolar disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
(2012-05-18)
Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder (BD) share DSM-IV criteria in adults and
cause problems in decision-making. Nevertheless, no previous report has assessed a decision-making ...