Truth vs Lies

Introduction

21st-Century Gaslighting
by Andrea Gawrylewski

Section 1 : Grappling With Reality

1.1    Our Inner Universes

         by Anil K. Seth

1.2     Why Good Thoughts Block Better Ones

          by Merim Bilalic´ and Peter McLeod

1.3     How to Think about “Implicit Bias”

          by Keith Payne, Laura Niemi, John M. Doris

1.4    Why We Trust Lies

          by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall

Section 2: Decision-Making

2.1     Tough Calls

          by Baruch Fischhoff

2.2     Confronting Unknowns

          by Jessica Hullman

2.3     Which Experts Should You Listen to during the Pandemic?

          by Nathan Ballantyne and David Dunning

2.4     Big Data and Small Decisions

          by Zeynep Tufekci

Section 3: Technology’s Influence

3.1    When “Like” Is a Weapon

          by the Editors

3.2     A New World Disorder

          by Claire Wardle

3.3     Inside the Echo Chamber

          by Walter Quattrociocchi

3.4    The Shared Past That Wasn’t

          by Laura Spinney

3.5    Clicks, Lies and Videotape

         by Brooke Borel

3.6    How to Defraud Democracy

         by J. Alex Halderman as told to Jen Schwartz

Section 4: Politics

4.1     The Tribalism of Truth

          by Matthew Fisher, Joshua Knobe, Brent Strickland and Frank C. Keil

4.2    Post-Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed

         by Kathleen Higgins

4.3    Why People “Fly from Facts”

          by Troy Campbell and Justin Friesen

4.4    Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories

          by Melinda Wenner Moyer

4.5    Contagious Dishonesty

         by Dan Ariely and Ximena Garcia-Rada

Section 5: Foundations of Science

 

5.1     The Science of Antiscience and Thinking

          by Douglas T. Kenrick, Adam B.Cohen, Steven L. Neuberg and Robert B. Cialdini

5.2     How Professional Truth Seekers Search for Answers

          Interviews by Brooke Borel

5.3     The Truth about Scientific Models

          by Sabine Hossenfelder

5.4     A Significant Problem

          by Lydia Denworth

5.5    The Roots of Science Denial

         by Katharine Hayhoe as told to Jen Schwartz

5.6    Message Control

         by Brooke Borel

5.7    How Much Can We Know?

          by Marcelo Gleiser