Have you ever shared a link online without reading the article? How often do you challenge people in face-to-face conversations about the truthfulness of what they're telling you? Does the design of social media platforms affect what we believe? How exactly should we deal with politicians who constantly lie to the public? Dealing with these questions and many more, in the first episode of this podcast series, I interview Prof Norbert Schwarz. Prof Schwarz is Provost Professor in the...

Hi my name is Ciarán Mc Mahon and welcome to Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Media and Technology. This podcast is based around the book of the same name I've edited which has just been published by Routledge. Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Media and Technology draws together chapters as they originally appeared before COVID-19 descended on the world. Over the course of the following episodes, I'll be speaking with the authors of those chapters....

Hi my name is Ciarán Mc Mahon and welcome to Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Media and Technology. This podcast is based around the book,  Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Media and Technology, which draws together chapters as they originally appeared before COVID-19 descended on the world. Over the course of the following episodes, I'll be speaking with the authors of those chapters. So that means we're going to be talking about about fake news,...