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Second reading in 2021: on #honesty and #stories by Laura Packer #52papers @Lauradol4 http://truestorieshonestlies.blogspot.com/2017/04/truth-honesty-and-storytelling.html
Third reading (courtesy of our #PhilMHRG): Neil Levy on the (ir)rationality of conspiracy theories #52papers https://social-epistemology.com/2019/10/09/is-conspiracy-theorising-irrational-neil-levy/
Fourth reading (to prepare for the @forumphilosophy misinformation event tonight): The Misinformation Age by Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300234015/misinformation-age #52papers
Fifth source is the classic paper by Sharot on #optimism bias which I am re-reading in preparation for a class visit today: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(11)01191-2 Sharot's insights about the systemic effects of the bias for groups and society are prescient of our COVID-19 world #52papers
Sixth paper is also about systemic effects of #optimism: how does the perception of time shape our responses to climate change? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.272 "more optimism was associated with less guilt, less perceived responsibility and lower behavioral intentions" #52papers
Seventh paper is by Carolina Flores on #evidence responsiveness in #delusions (something I am working on too): https://philarchive.org/archive/FLODE-2v1 very worthwhile read, lots to think about #52papers
Eighth paper is by @psychunseen on varieties of delusion-like beliefs, relevant to conspiracy theories and other phenomena recently described as delusional in the non-clinical context http://jaapl.org/content/jaapl/early/2020/06/11/JAAPL.200013-20.full.pdf #52papers
