Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect
Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […]
The Visual Authority Trap
The challenge: Students tend to perceive attractive looking results as more trustworthy. This is the aesthetic bias, a behavioral phenomenon where humans […]
From ‘Which Database?’ to ‘Under What Conditions?’: Teaching Critical Thinking Through Search Tool Selection in an AI Age
A few years ago, if you asked students where they began their research, the answer was predictable: “Google” or “Google Scholar.” Today, […]
The 3E Cycle: Establish-Examine-Evolve as a Structured Model to Foster Critical Thinking
In university classroom, I once asked my undergraduate students if a particular policy decision had strengthened or weakened the national economy. Few […]
Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 6: A Social Science Bites Retrospective
Every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast is queried about their area of expertise, and hence the questions tend to differ […]
Beyond Fact-Checking: Making Critical Thinking an Everyday Multimodal Habit
Students now encounter arguments mainly through digital feeds. These arguments are layered with music, editing, facial expressions, captions, filters, AI-generated imagery, and […]
From Hot Takes to Habitual Inquiry: A Puzzle-Based Routine for Everyday Critical Thinking in Higher Education
In today’s information ecosystem, reactions often unfold in seconds: a headline provokes emotion, an AI-generated paragraph sounds authoritative, a post feels right, […]
The Cognitive Immune System: Making Critical Thinking a Daily Mental Habit
In an information ecosystem shaped by algorithmic curation, emotionally optimized headlines, and increasingly indistinguishable AI-generated media, the problem is no longer simply […]
