truth
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Climate knowledge
Repeating aids believing: climate misinformation feels more true through repetition – even if you back climate science
Climate misinformation may be more effective than we’d like to think because of a phenomenon called the illusory truth effect.
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Artificial intelligence
Eat a rock a day, put glue on your pizza: how Google’s AI is losing touch with reality
Using AI to write search results is risky for Google, the internet, and the whole idea of ‘truth’.
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Brain power
Being vague won’t help you to influence others
In carefully planned experiments, researchers aimed to understand how people react to vague and direct answers to questions.
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Brain power
With so many people speaking ‘their truth’, how do we know what the truth really is?
What does it mean to say, ‘I have spoken my truth’? Can the truth really be relative – and how…
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ABCs of KM
The use of euphemisms as a “dark side” knowledge management tactic
To draw on one of the firm earnings euphemisms identified in a recent study, knowledge management appears to "have missed…
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Community
Questioning the truth in the notion of “post-truth”
Implicit in the terms "post-truth" and "post-truth politics" is the view that the global information landscape has undergone a dramatic…
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Brain power
To persuade, think like the person you want to convince
The always pithy Seth Godin makes the point that many people prefer to argue from the standpoint of their own…