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Cartiff, Brian Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Individuals rely on accurate information to make important decisions, but in the current environment the vast amount of misinformation present in society is complicating people's thinking. Many people fall prey to a cognitive bias called the continued influence effect, which occurs when they continue to use misinformation even when they have seen…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Metacognition, Political Attitudes, Accuracy
Aikins, Ross Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Higher education is a place where students are known to navigate various stages of psychosocial development, and experiment with psychoactive substances. Extant research detailing the relationship between drugs and student development typically frame the impact of substance use as exclusively negative or harmful to student health and the outcomes…
Descriptors: College Students, Drug Abuse, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Stimulants