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The Many Faces of Cognitive Immunology

Viewing minds through the lens of cognitive immunology can reveal antidotes to misinformation, disinformation, and information chaos.

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By David Sloan Wilson In History

Facing the Dark History of Evolutionary Science: The Role of the Individual in Learning How to Evolve on Purpose

In this talk, I will explain the key but largely unknown scientific error made by Francis Galton and how profoundly it has distorted our world to the present day.

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By Ed Gibney In Psychology

Evolving My View on Mental Immunity

After initially accepting the metaphor of mental immunity as a useful gift from a cherished friend, my more deeply ingrained worldview now appears to be casting doubts upon it.

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Psychology

Changing A Belief Means Changing How You Feel: The Role of Emotions in Cognitive Immunology

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do…

Steven P. Gilbert
January 10, 2023

Psychology

Bad Ideas Recruit the Mind’s Immune System to Protect Themselves

Some bad ideas get past a mind’s defenses and then hijack the mind’s immune system.…

Barry Mauer
December 15, 2022

Health Psychology

The Analogy of/and Inoculation Theory to Mental Immunity

Models from epidemiology are increasingly used to better understand how misinformation spreads in online networks.1 If…

Josh Compton, Sander van der Linden
December 13, 2022

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Biology

Cultural Immune Systems as Parts of Cultural Superorganisms

When the concept of 'organism' is expanded to include groups as organisms, the concepts of…

David Sloan Wilson
December 8, 2022

Psychology

The Science of Mental Immunity Has Arrived

The emerging field of “cognitive immunology” may hold solutions to our world’s growing disinformation problems.

Andy Norman
December 6, 2022

Business Economy Politics

The Nordic Third Way: A Conversation with Nina Witoszek and Atle Midttun

The Nordic nations are identified as exemplars of good governance, which avoid the excesses of…

Nina Witoszek, Atle Midttun, David Sloan Wilson
November 30, 2022

Business Economy History

Ten Thousand Years of the Third Way: A Conversation with Peter Turchin

Our emergence as a species and the last ten thousand years of human history demonstrates…

Peter Turchin, David Sloan Wilson
November 17, 2022

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Introducing the Prosocial Commons Book Club

The only thing more pleasurable and instructive than reading a good book on your own…

David Sloan Wilson
October 31, 2022

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What Happened to Selfish Genes?

Dawkins himself calls Agren's book "the most thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have…

David Sloan Wilson
October 26, 2022

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Hylo: Prosocial Coordination for a Thriving Planet

Technologies are products of the culture in which they emerge, and they guide the emergence…

David Sloan Wilson
October 25, 2022

Conferences & Workshops Webinar

Evolution of Responses to Homelessness to Reach Functional Zero

Rosanne Haggerty has been working with others to end homelessness since 1990.

David Sloan Wilson
October 25, 2022

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Introducing the Prosocial Commons: The Next Generation

The Prosocial Commons is for anyone who wants to further our mission to "consciously evolve…

David Sloan Wilson
October 24, 2022

Conferences & Workshops Webinar

Building a Caring Democracy: Four Cornerstones

Systems scientist, cultural historian, and futurist Riane Eisler will address the urgent question of why…

David Sloan Wilson
October 23, 2022

Conferences & Workshops

Evolving A World That Works for All: Fulfilling the Spirit of Humanism in the Internet Age

A second Darwinian revolution is in progress.

The Editors
October 21, 2022

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Moving Beyond Naïve Theories of Environmental Property Rights

By understanding diversity, we are better equipped to engage with it without dismissing it and…

David Sloan Wilson
October 20, 2022

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Envisioning Economies and Cultures Inspired by Living Systems

Imagine an economy that is regenerative and adaptive, one that evolves along with the social…

David Sloan Wilson
October 14, 2022

Conferences & Workshops Webinar

Identifying the Principles of an Ecological Civilization

Redirecting humanity’s trajectory will require transformation at a foundational level.

David Sloan Wilson
October 12, 2022

Podcast

What Happened to Selfish Genes? with J. Arvid Agren

Listen: Spotify - Google - Apple - Stitcher J. Arvid Agren's book The Gene's Eye View of Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2021), is a…

David Sloan Wilson
October 10, 2022

Webinar

Living Design: A Novel Interdisciplinary, Interbeing Approach to Regenerating Communities, Organizations, and Ecosystems

An online lecture and in-depth discussion with Tamsin Woolley-Barker. Friday, October 7 at 6pm EST

David Sloan Wilson
October 3, 2022

Business Economy

Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Development: A Conversation with Scott Peters

There is an alternative way to promote development so governments and other agencies can produce…

Scott J. Peters, David Sloan Wilson
September 29, 2022

Arts

Evolutionary Science in Joyce’s Ulysses

James Joyce developed a writing technique that mirrored advances in the evolutionary science of his…

Conor McCloskey
September 26, 2022

Webinar

Accounting for Values: An Evolutionary Perspective on Resources

How can organizations and people account for the things they truly value?

David Sloan Wilson
September 19, 2022

Business Economy

The Third Way of Entrepreneurship in the Internet Age: A Conversation with Tim O’Reilly

The Internet represents the ideal model to understand The Third Way alternative to laissez-faire and…

Tim O’Reilly, David Sloan Wilson
September 15, 2022

Business Economy

Urban Planning and the Third Way: A Conversation with Daniel T. O’Brien

Smart cities allow a comparison of laissez-faire, centralized planning, and the Third Way of entrepreneurship…

Daniel T. O’Brien, David Sloan Wilson
September 8, 2022

Health Psychology

The Anxiety Epidemic in Children: What are the Causes?

Rates of anxiety and depression have been rising in children since the 1980’s and might…

Peter Gray
August 23, 2022

Business Economy Politics

The Role of the Market in the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Peter Boettke

Markets have a role to play, but they must be structured so that the cultural…

Peter Boettke, David Sloan Wilson
August 11, 2022

Economy Politics

The Third Way of Entrepreneurship and the Art of Public Policy: A Conversation with David Colander

There are many sectors of the economy where for-benefit corporations are a better structure than…

David Colander, David Sloan Wilson
July 28, 2022

Politics

Socialism, Capitalism, and the Third Way of National Governance: A Conversation with Geoffrey Hodgson

The failure of laissez-faire and centralized planning, revealing the need for the Third Way of…

Geoffrey Hodgson, David Sloan Wilson
July 21, 2022

Economy History Philosophy Politics

Pragmatism as the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Trygve Throntveit

Positive systemic change must be the target of selection. Alternative social practices must be oriented…

Trygve Throntveit, David Sloan Wilson
July 14, 2022

Commentaries

Why We Experiment

Words such as “science” and “experiment” mean different things to different people. Here is what…

David Sloan Wilson, Paul Atkins
July 7, 2022

Business Culture Economy

Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Entrepreneurship

A modern understanding of human cultural evolution reveals the conventional laissez-faire view of entrepreneurship as…

David Sloan Wilson
June 30, 2022

Politics Race

Decolonizing Science and the Bias Against Non-Native English Speakers

Allow me to set some context first. I am a white, straight (happily married), male…

Ian MacGregor-Fors
June 22, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 8. Anatomy of a Model

Group selection was decisively rejected on theoretical grounds, according to the patriotic history of individual…

David Sloan Wilson
June 16, 2022

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