Seeing is believing: The effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning

By D. P. Mccabe, Alan D. Castel. Cognition, 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science

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The Cognitive Science of Visual-Spatial Displays: Implications for Design (2011, background): “The same is true of subdisciplines within psychology (Smith, Best, Stubbs, Archibald, & Roberson-Nay, 2002) and the quality of scientific reasoning in neuroscience articles is rated as higher if the article includes brain images rather than bar graphs or no graphics (McCabe & Castel, 2008).”
Neuroethics of neuromarketing (2008, methodology): “…resonance imaging (fMRI) and quantitative EEG analyses have been used to assess consumer behavior (Smith et al., 2002; Dickhaut et al., 2003; McClure et al., 2004; Mast and Zaltman, 2005; Ahlert et al., 2006; Knutson et al., 2007; Koenigs and Tranel, 2008; Plassmann et al., 2007; Renvoisé…”
Neuroimaging of the Periaqueductal Gray: State of the Field (2011, background): “, 2009), and the beautiful brain images may lead scientists and the public to be over-confident in the results (McCabe and Castel, 2008; Weisberg et al., 2008).”
Neuromyths in education: what is fact and what is fiction for Portuguese teachers? (2013, background): “Previous studies have shown that public perception of research findings are generally more likely to be scientifically credible when they are accompanied by brain images or even false neuroscience explanations (Weisberg et al. 2007; McCabe and Castel 2008).”
Neuroethics, Neuroeducation, and Classroom Teaching: Where the Brain Sciences Meet Pedagogy (2012, background): “Educators are surely just as enamored as the general public of images in popular magazines of brain scans from functional MRI studies [ 31 ].”
Brain science and early years policy: Hopeful ethos or ‘cruel optimism’? (2015, background): “We draw on interviews with key proponents of early intervention policies and practitioners working in the early years field to interrogate the way that, rather than a progressive initiative, early intervention using brain science claims essentialises mother-child relations, biologises ideas about…”
Adolescent Maturity and the Brain: The Promise and Pitfalls of Neuroscience Research in Adolescent Health Policy (2009, neutral): “Subjects who saw the brain image rated the story as more compelling than did subjects in other conditions [31].”
Brains and brands: Developing mutually informative research in neuroscience and marketing (2008, result): “Similar results are reported by McCabe and Castel (2008) with respect to the presence of brain imaging pictures in research studies.”