The Knowledge Illusion

Kyle interviews Steven Sloman, Professor in the school of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Steven is co-author of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone and Causal Models: How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives. Steven shares his perspective and research into how people process information and what this teaches us about the existence of and belief in fake news.

Guest

Steven Sloman: I study how people think: how we reason, make decisions, and form attitudes and beliefs. Most of the work in my lab involves experiments asking adults to think about events and report their conclusions and preferences. My perspective has been shaped by observing how people respond to political events, by philosophy, and by computational models of how people process information