We all jump to conclusions about the motives of other people’s actions. In the field of psychology, this type of thinking is called “attribution bias."| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...
The halo effect occurs when an initial positive first impression unduly influences your opinion of that person as a whole.| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...
The New York Times spoke with Reboot president Helen Lee Bouygues for a story about conspiracies flourishing across TikTok, including one about "Titanic truthers."| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...
Rather than argue facts with science deniers, instead build trust and expose the flaws in the logic and reasoning that they used to arrive at their conclusions.| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...
When we make decisions based on how information is presented, rather than the information itself, we fall prey to a cognitive bias called the framing effect| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...
A new survey from Reboot shows that 64% of young TikTok users would give up their right to vote before they would give up social media.| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...
Social media apps like TikTok have made young people vulnerable to influence. 64% would give up their right to vote before they would give up social media.| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...
Helen Lee Bouygues, president of the Reboot Foundation, writes in the Dallas Morning News that parents must take an active role in the online lives of their children.| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...
Declinism bias is when individuals view the past more favorably than the future, or they believe that society, culture, or civilization is in decline.| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...
A new report finds a link between the amount of time teens spend in TikTok and whether they think science is benefiting – or hurting – society.| REBOOT FOUNDATION | Promoting and developing critical thinking tools and reso...