| Clip Of Discussion on Truth and Democracy

Video Clip: Cognitive Bias and Misinformation

Description

RAND Corporation Strategy Director Jennifer Kavanaugh discussed the ideas of cognitive bias and examples such as motivated reasoning, recency bias and anecdotes.

4 minutes

Keywords

  • Algorithm
  • Anecdote
  • Cognitive Bias
  • Conspiracy Theories
  • Exacerbate
  • Heuristics
  • Motivated Reasoning
  • Preexisting Beliefs
  • Recency Bias
  • Social Media

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