“To the brain, information is its own reward,” said co-author of the study Ming Hsu, Ph.D. According to him, just as we like empty calories from junk food, we can also overvalue data that makes us feel good but may not be useful. Or, as one Reddit thread shows, even accurate! Started by platform user lilCRONOS, it has folks sharing “the dumbest” things someone made them believe to be true that they later found out wasn’t. Below you will find the most popular submissions to the discussion, which serve as a reminder that we can’t trust everything we hear. PotatoWithFlippers , Christopher Carson / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
BurnerAccount337 , Abdulvahap Demir / pexels (not the actual photo) Report
“We are skilled at figuring out who to trust and what to believe, and, if anything, we’re too hard rather than too easy to influence,” Mercier said. He bases those statements on a growing body of research in fields such as neuropsychiatry and evolutionary psychology, and argues that humans are hardwired to balance openness with vigilance. AcceptableSample9636 , Alejandro Duarte / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
Salzberger , Brian Lawson / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
So there are a few ways of scrolling through the list: you might view the entries as proof that we can be easily persuaded, or you might treat them as evidence that we, eventually, figure things out. After all, the people sharing these anecdotes did. TheAnxiousTumshie , Addilyn Ragsdill @clockworklemon.com / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
omahaspeedster , Ta Z / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
batseverywherebats , Alexander Grey / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
BeatRealistic1927 , Arlington Research / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
Strobro3 , Nam Anh / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
VegetableBeneficial , Mpho Mojapelo / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
falaffels , Sherman Kwan / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
Mistermatt91 , Katherine Ann Hartlef Villers / pexels (not the actual photo) Report
Tru-Queer , Paul Volkmer / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
darkestirony , пресс-служба / Wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report
King_Swass , Peter F. Wolf / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
daxter106 Report
SprinklesAea , Vincent van Zalinge / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
Kaja8948 , MART PRODUCTION / pexels (not the actual photo) Report
LaundryMan2008 , Yeshi Kangrang / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
Polluxi , Anita Peeples / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
No_Educator_834 , Thomas Oxford / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
Agreeable_Steak7189 , Pauline Loroy / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
Affectionate-Cat-211 Report
Ok_Possession4936 , Francesco Alberti / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
AlbionRemainsXIV , User:PeterPan23 / Wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report
TheFlaccidChode Report
123fofisix , Floh Keitgen / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
Typical80sKid , Kevin Grieve / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
AlbatrossNo1629 , Ali Bakhtiari / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report
Living-Ad-9128 , Leeloo The First / pexels (not the actual photo) Report
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