Overview
Introduction
Why Do Facts Fail?
by Lisa Pallatroni
Section 1: Thinking about Thinking
1.1 The Myth of Self-Knowledge: 10 Things You Don’t Know about Yourself
by Steve Ayan
1.2 Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss
by Keith E. Stanovich
1.3 Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things?
by Heather A. Butler
1.4 The Roots of Science Denial
by Katharine Hayhoe and Jen Schwartz
1.5 Why People “Fly from Facts”
by Troy Campbell and Justin Friesen
Section 2: Brain Biases
2.1 Why Good Thoughts Block Better Ones
by Merim Bilalić and Peter McLeod
2.2 How to Think about "Implicit Bias"
by Keith Payne, Laura Niemi and John M. Doris
2.3 What Is Cognitive Dissonance?
by Keise Izuma
2.4 The Believing Brain
by Michael Shermer
2.5 The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw
by Robert Burton and Jonah Lehrer
Section 3: Reinforcing Disbelief
3.1 Inside the Echo Chamber
by Walter Quattrociocchi
3.2 Factiness
by Michael Shermer
3.3 Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
by David Z. Hambrick and Madeline Marquardt
Section 4: Solutions: Bridging the Gap
4.1 How to Talk to a Science Denier without Arguing
by Gleb Tsipursky
4.2 Message Control
by Brooke Borel
4.3 How to Overcome Unconscious Bias
by Jordan Axt
4.4 Understanding the Influential Mind
by Tali Sharot and Gareth Cook
4.5 How to Combat Distrust of Science
by Sander van der Linden and Stephan Lewandowsky