Tag:
mental immunity
Feb 28, 2023
Where Do Librarians Fit in the Effort to Improve Mental Immunity?
Misinformation is an epidemic and librarians are the frontline workers.
Feb 21, 2023
Building Mental Immunity
Education will play a central role in strengthening the mental resilience of current and future generations.
Feb 16, 2023
A Tribalism Vaccine
At the core of human adaptation is the solution to the riddle of how a human mind, which was crafted to work with people we know, evolved the instinct to work with people we don’t. But there was a cost, and the result was a seemingly intractable paradox embedded in humanity’s moral compass.
Feb 14, 2023
Are Some False Beliefs Good For You?
Some psychologists champion what they call ‘positive illusions’, mild misapprehensions about ourselves that are conducive to health and happiness
Feb 9, 2023
Mental Immunity, The Group Mind, and Existential Fear
As a highly social species, humans have an evolved tendency to favor the ‘in-group.’ This trait significantly impacts our immunity, or lack of it, to false or harmful information.
Feb 7, 2023
Witch-Hunting: A Lethal Cultural “Virus”?
New research suggests there may have been Darwinian mechanisms behind the evolution of witch-hunting phenomena.
Jan 19, 2023
The Many Faces of Cognitive Immunology
Viewing minds through the lens of cognitive immunology can reveal antidotes to misinformation, disinformation, and information chaos.
Jan 12, 2023
Evolving My View on Mental Immunity
After initially accepting the metaphor of mental immunity as a useful gift from a cherished friend, my more deeply ingrained worldview now appears to be casting doubts upon it.
Jan 10, 2023
Changing A Belief Means Changing How You Feel: The Role of Emotions in Cognitive Immunology
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Dec 15, 2022
Bad Ideas Recruit the Mind’s Immune System to Protect Themselves
Some bad ideas get past a mind’s defenses and then hijack the mind’s immune system. These bad ideas recruit the mind’s defenses to protect themselves, even if that recruitment ends up harming the mind that hosts it.
Dec 13, 2022
The Analogy of/and Inoculation Theory to Mental Immunity
Models from epidemiology are increasingly used to better understand how misinformation spreads in online networks.
Dec 6, 2022
The Science of Mental Immunity Has Arrived
The emerging field of “cognitive immunology” may hold solutions to our world’s growing disinformation problems.