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/PRNewswire/ -- The National Press Club Journalism Institute is pleased to announce a free, four-part webinar series focused on ethics in the age of...

In trying to decide whether a claim of fact qualifies as either true or false, Americans consider the intentions of the information source, Boston College psychologists reported recently in Nature’s Scientific Reports. That confidence, they found, is based on what individuals think the source of information is trying to do – in this case either accurately informing or deceiving their audience.

In politics, we are all guilty of 'motivated reasoning,' aren’t we?

While 60% to 70% of Americans say they are uncomfortable with factory farming, the number of vegetarians in the U.S. hovers around 5%.

/PRNewswire/ -- Journalism and democracy have been upended by the growth of mis- and dis-information. Countering it effectively requires understanding why...

What would persuade you to eat less meat? Probably not an appeal to go cold turkey, but perhaps an introduction to being reducetarian.

The gun control debate is a political story but also a psychological one. What will it take to fix this?

After podcaster Joe Rogan's wildly popular interview with Dr. Robert Malone aired on "The Joe Rogan Experience," fact checkers jumped into the fray to try to disprove assertions made by Malone. One of those cited authoritative in the AP "fact...

Inside the upside-down world where Covid-19 vaccines are dangerous and ivermectin is saving lives.

Anti-vaxxers, often motivated by baseless conspiracy theories, have a long history of questioning the work of the scientific community while discrediting medical breakthroughs. However, there is also a bizarre phenomenon of these same people having no qualms about embracing unproven drugs. In fact, ...