Posts Tagged ‘social psychology ’
I’ve been interested a bit in looking at how to help people find high-quality information on the web – recently, I have been exploring how to help people make better credibility judgments about the information they find. One paper I was reading, “Statement Map: Assisting Information Credibility Analysis by Visualizing Arguments” by Koji Murakami and others at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, uses as a motivating example the recent movement against vaccinations for children, specifically the MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella), as the result of fears that these vaccines could cause autism.
