Outside Resources
Article: A meta-analysis of research on combating mis-information
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617714579
Article: Fixing the Problem of Liberal Bias in Social Psychology
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fixing-the-problem-of-liberal-bias-in-social-psychology/
Article: Flat out science rejection is rare, but motivated rejection of key scientific claims is relatively common.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/who-are-you-calling-anti-science/
Article: How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-anecdotal-evidence-can-undermine-scientific-results/
Article: How fake news is affecting your memory
http://www.nature.com/news/how-facebook-fake-news-and-friends-are-warping-your-memory-1.21596
Article: New Study Indicates Existence of Eight Conservative Social Psychologists
https://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/01/07/new-study-finds-conservative-social-psychologists/
Article: The Objectivity Thing (or, Why Science Is a Team Sport)
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/httpblogsscientificamericancomdo ing-good-science20110720the-objectivity-thing-or-why-science-is-a-team-sport/
Article: Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions
Video: Karl Popper’s Falsification – Karl Popper believed that human knowledge progresses through ‘falsification’. A theory or idea shouldn’t be described as scientific unless it could, in principle, be proven false.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-sGqBsWv4
Video: Karl Popper, Science, and Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8Xfl0JdTQ
Video: Simple visualization of Type I and Type II errors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsa9ly4OSBk
Web: An overview and history of the concept of fake news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news
Web: Heterodox Academy – an organization focused on improving “the quality of research and education in universities by increasing viewpoint diversity, mutual understanding, and constructive disagreement”.
https://heterodoxacademy.org/
Web: The People’s Science – An orgnization dedicated to removing barriers between scientists and society. See examples of how researchers, including psychologists, are sharing their research with students, colleagues and the general public.
