Ever wondered why misinformation is so hard to get rid of for some people and not others? New paper on misinformation in the brain with Silvy Collin in the lead: "The effects of beliefs on correcting misinformation in memory"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social

I'm calling it now. "Slopaganda" is gonna be @merriam-webster.com word of the year

@michalk.bsky.social

lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/apri...

Can you imagine? If that happens I suggest we throw a slopaganda party somewhere near Tesla headquarters :D

This may be of interest to IIT Concerned ppl @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @alanlee.bsky.social et al

new preprint available!

Trust from Mistrust: When is Trust Rationally Justified?

Co-authors @michalk.bsky.social @stevebland.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Drawing on insights from Nietzsche's Human All-too-human, we develop a framework for wisely placing trust 🧵

John Flavell, a giant of developmental psychology, who introduced the study of metacognition, died peacefully at age 96. www.amacad.org/person/john-...

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Such a cool paper and study! Very excited to see Grimes getting the attention he deserves. One thing I would like to see with this study is more analysis of eye movements. If you are game let me know and I'd happily get our lab involved--we just finished some decision blindness experiments.

Excited to share this new empirical work funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social, replicating & extending the work of John Grimes on change blindness during saccades: osf.io/preprints/ps...

It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT

I tend to give small emerging fields the benefit of the doubt. So folks may ask me why I speak out strongly against IIT. I do so because it is neither small nor emerging any more and moved from ideation to scale up essentially without any convincing evidence.

@deanbuono.bsky.social I worry that this pivot to physics will lend plausibility to the idea that Giulio Tononi is like Einstein, IIT is like general relativity, and the critics of IIT are like 100 angry 'establishment' tribunals signing letters against. Astrology is a better analogy imo