It stands to reason, therefore, that misinformation and false beliefs regarding external breast prostheses are reinforced and perpetuated. The impact of breast cancer on a woman's physical ...

Although people generally prefer accurate to false beliefs, they have many biases ... with wanting to hold such a positive reflected self-image (Heck & Krueger, 2015). If they simply perceive ...

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such ...

Further research found primates are unable to recognize false beliefs, the recognition that others are able to believe things that aren’t true, a key measure of theory of mind. Children begin to ...

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While this democratization has given a voice to millions, it has also created an environment where misinformation can ...

It’s the only archeological site in the world that provides a complete picture of an ancient Roman city. However, new research published on Thursday, Nov. 7, has raised doubts about the authenticity ...

Anti-incumbency fervor, populist rage and elite disconnection — all facets of the same global democratic crisis ...

Mr. Kennedy has promoted many false or unproven claims that center on public health and the pharmaceutical industry — most notably, the scientifically discredited belief that childhood vaccines ...

We all have beliefs we hold on to tightly, sometimes so tightly that it feels like nothing could ever shake them. After all, ...

between some mostly false sense of reality and the sheer senseless fact of it. That many Americans not only believe incredibly strange and wrong things but will also dutifully and willfully wreck ...