HistoryPsychology Witch-Hunting: A Lethal Cultural “Virus”? In the late sixteenth century, the region surrounding the German city of Trier experienced an…Steije HofhuisJanuary 26, 2023
PhilosophyPsychology Are Some False Beliefs Good For You? Suppose you could come clean with yourself and have truthful beliefs about everything you care…Maarten BoudryJanuary 24, 2023
Psychology The Many Faces of Cognitive Immunology Viewing minds through the lens of cognitive immunology can reveal antidotes to misinformation, disinformation, and…Stephan LewandowskyJanuary 19, 2023
Psychology Evolving My View on Mental Immunity After initially accepting the metaphor of mental immunity as a useful gift from a cherished…Ed GibneyJanuary 12, 2023
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. GilbertJanuary 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 MauerDecember 15, 2022
HealthPsychology 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 LindenDecember 13, 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 NormanDecember 6, 2022
HealthPsychology 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 GrayAugust 23, 2022
BiologyCulturePsychology Evaluating Narratives of Conscious Evolution Download this article as a PDF version. The idea that we can consciously evolve our…David Sloan WilsonApril 4, 2022
