Epistemic Vigilance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19040822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Sperber (0000-0002-4066-3058, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author), Fabrice Clément (0000-0002-6319-4362, University of Lausanne), Christophe Heintz (0000-0003-1504-9096), Olivier Mascaro (0000-0002-1120-5955), Hugo Mercier (0000-0002-0575-7913, University of Pennsylvania), Giancarlo Origgi (0000-0002-6162-8999, École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Gloria Origgi, Deirdre Wilson (0000-0001-5570-9920, University College London) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 359-393 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mind & Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-1064 • E-ISSN: 1468-0017 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2010.01394.x |
| OpenAlex | W4211000585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 527 |
| References cited | 107 |
Humans massively depend on communication with others, but this leaves them open to the risk of being accidentally or intentionally misinformed. To ensure that, despite this risk, communication remains advantageous, humans have, we claim, a suite of cognitive mechanisms for epistemic vigilance. Here we outline this claim and consider some of the ways in which epistemic vigilance works in mental and social life by surveying issues, research and theories in different domains of philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology and the social sciences
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy · Psychology
Is Presupposition Development a Unified Phenomenon? A Commentary on Giunta and Pouscoulous
Social Signals and Sense of Autonomy Jointly Modulate Learning in Children
Confidence as an expression of commitment
Young children discriminate genuine from fake smiles and expect people displaying genuine smiles to be more prosocial
Playing with the dials of belief
Norm change in intergroup relations requires integrating the social sciences
Prosodic Pointing in inferential comprehension
Childhood Trauma and Aggression
Fake News
Knowing and being known
Personality Structure and Attachment in Bipolar Disorder
Rituals Kneaded with Societies, Societies Kneaded with Rituals
Cultural divergence in children's selective word learning
The Achilles’ heel of the truth bias? High personal stakes reduce vulnerability to false information
The Minimal Model of Argumentation
The Evolutionary and Cultural Origins of Followers' Attraction to Leaders
Selective learning and teaching among Japanese and German children
Children's use of moral behavior in selective trust
S perber, D an
Relevance Theory
Relevance Theory and Language Acquisition
Sperber, Dan and Wilson, Deirdre
Relevance Theory and Second Language Acquisition
You Can Love a Robot, But Should You Fight With it?
The Tragedians of Heraclea and Comedians of Sinope
The Phanagoria Chous
Introduction
Theatre and Performance in the Bosporan Kingdom
Cognition and Conspiracy Theories
The Northward Advance of Greek Horizons
Celebrating Dionysus in Istros and Tomis
Epilogue
Black Sea Back Story
Fragmentary Greek Tragedies Set in the Black Sea
Ancient Theatre in Tauric Chersonesus
Historiography and Theatre
Paratheatrical Performances in the Bosporan Kingdom
Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea
Parental Reflective Functioning
Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking
Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research
The Mentalizing Approach to Psychopathology
Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory
Culture–gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality
A review of educational responses to the “post-truth” condition
Epistemic Petrification and the Restoration of Epistemic Trust
How children come to understand false beliefs
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation
Political diversity will improve social psychological science
The Public's Bounded Understanding of Science
The Exposure Advantage
The Argumentative Theory
Cognitive Foundations of Learning from Testimony
How to learn about teaching
Learning to Presuppose
A Dialogical, Multi-Agent Account of the Normativity of Logic
An Empirical Procedure to Evaluate Misinformation Rejection and Deception in Mediated Communication Contexts
The Perceived Convincingness Model
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
Facts are hard to come by
Deferring to Expertise whilst Maintaining Autonomy
Truth-making institutions
Naturalizing Critical Thinking
Introduction du Dossier « Affecter, être affecté. Autour des travaux de Jeanne Favret-Saada »
Relevance Is Socially Rewarded, But Not at the Price of Accuracy
The cultural change narrative as a core component of therapeutic change
Mentalizing the patient–Patient experiences with short-term mentalization-based therapy for borderline personality disorder
Analyzing the Perceived Utility of Covid-19 Countermeasures
Mentalization based treatment of youth on the psychotic spectrum
Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance
Partisan Epistemology and Misplaced Trust
Epistemic trust and personality functioning mediate the association between adverse childhood experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder in adulthood
Epistemic Trust and the Emergence of Conduct Problems
The Mirror and the Black Box
Generative AI Use and Critical Thinking Dispositions in Higher Education
Appraising the Task
Cognition and Communication
QAnon as an Online-Facilitated Cult
Adolescents’ reasoning to manage fake news
Critical thinking as the ability to sort and qualify the information available, to form one's own judgement
Argumentatividad
The emergence of polarised groups through source filtering
How cultural evolution can inform the science of science communication—and vice versa
In Seal We Trust? Investigating the Effect of Certifications on Perceived Trustworthiness of AI Systems
The scientific impotence excuse in education – Disentangling potency and pertinence assessments of educational research
Intellectual Humility and Self-Censorship in Higher Education; a thematic analysis
“Fake News” or Real Science? Critical Thinking to Assess Information on Covid-19
Knowing How You Know
Does It Matter What Is Said and Who Said It? The Interpretation of Trump’s and Harris’ Statements Among Republican and Democrat Voters
The Pseudo-Confidence Paradox
What type of subjectivity lies behind French causal connectives? A corpus-based comparative investigation of car and parce que
On the Epistemic Value of Reflection
Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners
Definite Descriptions in the Light of the Comprehension vs. Acceptance Distinction
The story effect
Strategic Use of (Un)certainty Expressions
Trust in interaction studies
Social cognition and Relevance
The detachment of responsibility
Strength is relevant
Truth and Interpretation
The Epistemology of Testimony
Advances In Experimental Social Psychology
The Robot's Rebellion
Belief's Own Ethics
Breakdown of Will
Relevance and Linguistic Meaning
Thoughts and Utterances
How Monkeys See the World
Cognition in the Wild
Critical Thinking
First Impressions
Accuracy of Deception Judgments
Natural pedagogy
Reason-based choice
Young and Old Adults' Concerns About Morality and Competence
The Ontogenesis of Trust
Learning Words from Knowledgeable versus Ignorant Speakers
A Theory of Collective Reputations (with Applications to the Persistence of Corruption and to Firm Quality)
Individual Differences in Inhibitory Control and Children's Theory of Mind
Reputation helps solve the ‘tragedy of the commons’
Action Anticipation Through Attribution of False Belief by 2-Year-Olds
Critical Notice
An Essay concerning Human Understanding
On Making the Right Choice
Epistemic Dependence
The moral, epistemic, and mindreading components of children’s vigilance towards deception
Do 15-Month-Old Infants Understand False Beliefs?
Deciding to trust, coming to believe
Confirmation Bias
Studies of independence and conformity
A perspective on judgment and choice
The anthropology of justice
Explaining culture
Web search engines and distributed assessment systems
Origins of verbal logic
Tradition as Truth and Communication
Knowledge in a Social World
Attribution of Beliefs by 13-Month-Old Infants
Who can catch a liar
Theory of Mind Development in Deaf Children
Children's Evaluation of Other People's Self‐Descriptions
The Law of Group Polarization
Skeptical responding in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)
Meaning
Utterer's Meaning and Intention
Intention and Convention in Speech Acts
Content Preservation
Is Verbal Communication a Purely Preservative Process
Deception in 3-year-olds
The correspondence bias
Evolution and the Human Mind
You can't not believe everything you read
You don't have to believe everything you read
Heuristic versus systematic information processing and the use of source versus message cues in persuasion
Conflict between intuitive and rational processing
Unbelieving the unbelievable
Evidentiality
The Evolution of Conformist Transmission and the Emergence of Between-Group Differences
Semantic constraints on relevance
The case for motivated reasoning
Logic and human reasoning
A Social History of Truth
Culture and Inference
Speech Acts
| Unique citing works | 527 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 35,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 509 |