Belief and misbelief asymmetry on the internet /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bronner, Gérald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: London : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE ; John Wiley and Sons, Inc., [2016]
Colección:Focus series (London, England)
Temas:
Internet.
Information asymmetry.
Asymétrie de l'information.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Information asymmetry
Internet
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Empire of Doubt
  • Chapter 1: More is Less: Mental Avarice and Mass Information
  • 1.1. The revolution of the cognitive market
  • 1.2. Amplification of the confirmation bias
  • 1.3. The Seattle affair
  • 1.3.1. The Wason experiment
  • About our mental avarice
  • 1.4. The theorem of information credulity
  • "Personally, to make sure, I check on the Internet"
  • 1.5. Filter bubbles
  • Chapter 2: Why Does the Internet Side with Dubious Ideas?
  • 2.1. The utopia of the knowledge society and the empire of beliefs
  • 2.2. The ditherer's problem
  • 2.3. Competition between belief and knowledge on the Internet
  • 2.4. Psychokinesis
  • 2.5. The Loch Ness Monster
  • 2.6. Aspartame
  • 2.7. Crop circles
  • 2.8. Astrology
  • 2.9. Overview of results
  • 2.10. How can we explain these results?
  • 2.11. The Titanic syndrome
  • 2.12. When Olson's paradox plays against knowledge
  • 2.13. Charles Fort, his life, and his works in a few words
  • 2.14. Fort products: argumentative mille-feuilles
  • 2.15. The sharing of the arguments of conviction
  • 2.16. A Fortean product in the making: Michael Jackson's fake death
  • 2.17. When Fort reinforces Olson
  • 2.18. Would you believe it!
  • 2.19. It is all in the Bible, all of it
  • 2.20. The transparency paradox
  • 2.21. A shorter incubation period
  • Chapter 3: Competition Serves the Truth, Excessive Competition Harms It
  • 3.1. Michael Jackson's son, abused by Nicolas Sarkozy
  • 3.2. A "prisoner's dilemma" kind of situation
  • 3.3. Presidential unfaithfulness and the burnt Koran
  • 3.4. The IRC curve (information reliability/competition)
  • Chapter 4: What Can Be Done? From the Democracy of the Gullible to the Democracy of Enlightenment
  • 4.1. The hope of the astrophysicist
  • 4.2. The bad education.
  • 4.3. When gullibility looks like intelligence
  • 4.4. The sum of imperfections
  • 4.5. Toward cognitive demagogy
  • 4.6. How to keep the illusion scholar inside us in check
  • 4.7. Declaration of mental independence
  • 4.8. The fourth power
  • 4.9. A new form of scientific communication
  • 4.10. A new militancy
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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