Sloman, a professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological sciences, and Fernbach, a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing, attempt nothing less than a takedown of widely held beliefs ...

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2017-08-05T14:30:11-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/668/20170805143311002_hd.jpgSteven Sloman, co-author of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone ...

New research shows that people who receive weak but supportive evidence about a proposition are less optimistic about the outcome than people who receive no evidence at all. The "weak evidence effect" ...

You probably suffer from the "illusion of explanatory depth." Moreover, you often succumb to the "illusion of understanding." So say two cognitive scientists, Philip Fernbach of Colorado University ...

We may not know as much as we think we do, University research suggests. Our own knowledge may be riddled with holes, but the information contained in many people’s minds forms a vast web of communal ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A study published online in the Journal of Consumer Research finds that people can differ widely on the level of detail makes them feel they understand something.

If we are reminded of anything this election season, it is that America is a house divided against itself. The anger and mistrust between Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, often ...

In their book, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone, researchers Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach draw on cognitive science and psychology to put forth a theory of the collective nature ...

The devil may be in the details for some shoppers – but not for all of them, new research shows. The study by professors at Brown University and the University of Colorado-Boulder found that consumers ...