Shauna Bowes

Doctoral Candidate, Emory University

Shauna Bowes is a doctoral candidate in Emory University’s clinical psychology programme. She studies intellectual humility and its potential implications for belief polarisation and misinformation susceptibility.

Written by Shauna Bowes

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Popper was right about the link between certainty and extremism

In terms of irrational confidence, many people at opposite ends of the political spectrum seem to have something in common

by Thomas Costello & Shauna Bowes