Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly
part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations …

Decades after the scientific debate about the anthropogenic causes of climate change was
settled, climate disinformation still challenges the scientific evidence in public discourse …

The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to study science communication
and, in particular, the transmission of consensus. In this study, we show how “science …

Este ensaio almejou refletir sobre a relação entre medicina narrativa, redes sociais e
humanização a partir da utilização, por um dos autores, das redes sociais para …

The goal of industrial/organizational (IO) psychology, is to build and organize trustworthy
knowledge about people-related phenomena in the workplace. Unfortunately, as with other …

A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of responses to 13 questions from a 2022 national
probability sample of 1,154 US adults supported the existence of five factors that we argue …

To reduce the spread of COVID-19, adherence to protective measures was crucial around
the world. While most complied with these measures, a vocal minority protested against …

According to many, we live in “posttruth” times, with the pervasiveness of falsehoods being
an existential threat to democracy and the functioning of free societies. Why do people …

This article aims to show how incorrect ideas about COVID-19 were promoted by physicians
in Brazil, contributing to a catastrophic response at the cost of hundreds of thousands of …

Long-standing discussions of the so-called urban–rural divide in the United States have
uncovered meaningful differences between urbanites and rural residents, but much of this …