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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...