For the past half-century, school choice initiatives have been intensifying across the globe. Choice policies emphasize school competition and increasing families' opportunities to select among academic programs.
Social Sciences
Feb 14, 2023
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Some past research has suggested that falsehoods travel more quickly online than the truth and are more popular with the public, but a new study gives a more hopeful view.
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2023
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People's first instinct when engaging with conspiracy believers is often to try and debunk their ideas with factual and authoritative information.
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2023
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USC researchers may have found the biggest influencer in the spread of fake news: social platforms' structure of rewarding users for habitually sharing information.
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2023
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When it comes to the news these days, what we choose to regard as trustworthy has more to do with our own world view than what kinds of news practices are worthy of trust.
Education
Jan 16, 2023
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Emily Van Duyn is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and co-wrote recent studies that examined the effects of labeling information "fake news" on public perceptions of journalists' ...
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2023
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Nudging—the idea that simple changes to how a choice is presented can lead people to make better decisions—has been one of the most popular ideas to emerge from economics in the past two decades.
Social Sciences
Dec 27, 2022
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An article published in the Journal of Social Epistemology entitled "Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper Press" authored by Central European University researchers Akos Szegofi and Christophe Heintz ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2022
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Information technology and the internet have proven to be a strong force for building collective action groups and mobilizing communities of protesters. Among the main advantages of digital and online activism are its increasing ...
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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A pandemic survey found that adolescents who answered more COVID-19 test questions correctly also reported lower stress, anxiety and depression as well as lower loneliness and fear of missing out, also known as FOMO.
Social Sciences
Nov 2, 2022
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