Cognitive scripts in social interaction
In his 2012 book Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Leonard Mlodinow recounts an experiment based on the memory theories of Frederik Bartlett (among which we find particularly interesting…
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RED Project First Results
The first year of the RED project comes to an end and Intellectual Output 1 is accomplished. The NTCenter team, as activity leading organisation, summarised all findings during that stage…
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INPLACE meeting in Porto
The third InPlace project meeting was held on July 27, 2018 in Porto, Portugal. Hosts of the meeting were our SPI partners. The latest videos captured by students were shown…
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Two New European Projects Approved
Two new European projects where NTCenter will participate alongside with our closest partner organisations in the field of education from the EU. The projects are Science for Fun and SKILLS+ (European…
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De Facto Project Approved for Funding by the European Commission
NTCenter is pleased to announce that a project based on our disinformation and misionformation counteracting methodology has been approved for funding by the EU. We partner with universities and training…
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Classification of misinformation and disinformation
When we at NTCenter first started our focused investigation on disinformation and misinformation, the topic consisted mostly of fractured content centered around media and politics. And the debate would rarely…
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Equivalency and Emphasis Frames
Chong and Druckman, in the context of media and communications, claim that framing takes two principal formats – equivalency and emphasis frames. Equivalency frames refer to statements which are logically equivalent,…
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Motivated Cognition
Motivated cognition is an important concept in understanding how we perceive the world and why we tend to assign unrealistically high trust to information received by those close to us…
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Systemic Causality
Systemic causality (systemic causation), as opposed to direct cause-effect, is not a naturally occuring learning concept, claims Prof. George Lakoff of University of California, Berkeley. The explanation is simple –…
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Frames as Thinking Contexts
Frames and framing are one of the key pillars of NTCenter’s conceptual model and practical kits for understanding and designing working solutions to the educational implications of misinformation and disinformation.…
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