How to Evaluate COVID-19 News without Freaking Out
Disinformation expert Carl Bergstrom gives tips on how to stay calm and make sense pandemic news -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How to Evaluate COVID-19 News without Freaking Out
Disinformation expert Carl Bergstrom gives tips on how to stay calm and make sense pandemic news -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How Your Homes and Buildings Affect You
Journalist and author Emily Anthes talks about her book The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Why Some Male Leaders Won’t Follow COVID-19 Safety Protocols
Men often think masks and other precautions make them look like wimps -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What AIDS Taught Us about Dealing with COVID-19
It’s foolhardy to assume that only some categories of people are at risk -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Overcoming Psychological Biases Is the Best Treatment against COVID-19 Yet
In responding to the pandemic, society may be hampered by cognitive and political beliefs that distort judgments and lead to irrational decisions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Bad News about the Pandemic: We’re Not Getting Back to Normal Any Time Soon
Thinking that we might is an example of what psychologists call “anchoring bias” -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
New Yorkers Flattened the Curve, but …
...a rush to reopen could undo all of our hard work -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Racism in Health Care Isn’t Always Obvious
As physicians, we believe that recognizing it begins with understanding our own privilege and biases -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Biggest Psychological Experiment in History Is Running Now
What can the pandemic teach us about how people respond to adversity? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Condoms of the Face: Why Some Men Refuse to Wear Masks
It’s not the first time masculine ideology has driven resistance to a public health initiative -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus Responses Highlight How Humans Have Evolved to Dismiss Facts That Don’t Fit Their Worldview
Science denialism is not just a simple matter of logic or ignorance -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus Responses Highlight How Humans Have Evolved to Dismiss Facts That Don’t Fit Their Worldview
Science denialism is not just a simple matter of logic or ignorance -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Health Care Workers Don’t Want to Be Heroes
We're forced to be, because our government has failed mount an adequate response COVID-19; meanwhile our cities burn and police assault the very citizens that fund their existence -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
One Upside of COVID-19: Kids Are Spending More Time with Dads
Among the benefits are more resilience and better emotional health -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
One Upside of COVID-19: Kids Are Spending More Time with Dads
Among the benefits are more resilience and better emotional health -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com