Month: January 2020

Correcting vaccine misinformation is a difficult process, study shows

Researchers found that vaccine misinformation in Danish media outlets from 2013-2016 led to HPV vaccinations dropping by 50.4%. An information campaign geared toward concerned parents helped increase vaccine uptake again, but uptake is still below the level before misinformation began, showing how difficult it is to undo the damages misinformation causes. Read Full Article (External […]

Published on January 7, 2020

The Psychology of Motivated versus Rational Impression Updating

People’s beliefs about others are often impervious to new evidence: we continue to cooperate with ingroup defectors and refuse to see outgroup enemies as rehabilitated. Resistance to updating beliefs with new information has historically been interpreted as reflecting bias or motivated cognition, but recent work in Bayesian inference suggests that belief maintenance can be compatible […]

Published on January 7, 2020

Living with Chronic Pain—How ACE Orthopedic Exercise Specialists Make a Difference

Want to help clients regain daily function and move with confidence? Become an ACE Orthopedic Exercise Specialist…. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in pioneering Self-Enhancement Science for the Success of Society. […]

Published on January 7, 2020