Prevailing interventions against misinformation emphasize truth detection, but offer no panacea. Research into decision-making suggests that strengthening people’s ability to estimate the plausibility...

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Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC) is the home for neuroimaging research at the University of Maryland, www.mnc.umd.edu. The center brings...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified

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People learn by observing others and from personal experience, but which strategy they favor varies. Here, the authors show that while some people dynamically arbitrate and switch to the strategy that...

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