(via Dr. Troy Swanson, Moraine Valley Community College)
I am excited to send along the link to an interview I did with psychologist Laura Lauzen-Collins. We discuss the short cuts used by your brain to process information and how those short cuts contribute to the spread of fake news. Importantly we discuss how identity and self-perception play an important role in judging information and our willingness to change our minds.
This is part of a series of interviews on the Circulating Ideas podcast on libraries and fake news. I have pasted the previous interviews below, also.
- “Fake News and the Psychology of the Brain”, Circulating Ideas Episode 116: Laura Lauzen-Collins
- “Fake News, Information Literacy and Teaching College Students”, Circulating Ideas Episode 113: William Badke
- “Fake News, Journalism and Libraries”, Circulating Ideas Episode 108: interview with Jeremy Shermak
- “Fake News, Information Literacy and Epistemology”, Circulating Ideas Episode 104: interview with Lane Wilkinson
Please share where appropriate. Thanks for listening.