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“Stranger Danger”: Children’s Distrust of Men May Outweigh Information Accuracy
Preschoolers are still learning to consider information accuracy when making judgements of trustworthiness.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on children’s susceptibility to trust strangers, prosocial behaviors in adolescents, temporal structure in memory, memory accuracy for real-world events, effort and pupillometric investigation, personality changes and career, and a neurobiological examination of delayed judgments of learning.
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Distrust Authorities, Including Me
Like many teachers, I’ve agonized over what to tell my students about the crises convulsing us lately, the pandemic and U.S. presidential election. What lessons can we draw from what’s happened? I’ve decided to double
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“Stranger Danger”: Children’s Distrust of Men May Outweigh Information Accuracy
Preschoolers are still learning to consider information accuracy when making judgements of trustworthiness.
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A Cloudy Future: Why We Don’t Trust Algorithms When They’re Almost Always Right
Researchers explore our preference for human skill and instinct over technologies that have proven themselves better than us at driving, performing surgery, and making hiring decisions.
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Making Votes Count: It’s as Much About Psychology (and Ballot Design) as Security
Poorly designed ballots can prevent voters from understanding, seeing, using, and processing information correctly, which can lead to voting failures that alter the outcome of elections. Applied psychologists and human factors engineers can make a real difference in ensuring that ballots accurately capture voter intent.
