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Why Critical Thinking

“Critical thinking is the skill that makes us human, the one capacity that truly distinguishes us as a species. It is also something we can learn and get better at over time.”

Helen Lee Bouygues
President, Reboot Foundation

Resources:

Critical Thinking in the Digital Age

Reboot’s free tools empower parents, teachers, and professionals to protect human intellect and strengthen critical thinking in the age of AI.

Reboot’s Position on Social Media and Children

Parents’ Guide to Critical Thinking

Teachers’ Guide to Critical Thinking

Free Lesson Plans for Teachers

Insights on Critical Thinking

Learn about topics like metacognition, media literacy, and how to sharpen your critical thinking skills in our digital and AI-driven world.

Logic and critical thinking in science are important when talking to science deniers and conspiracy theory believers.

Everything You Need To Know About Attribution Bias

09 October 2023

Attribution bias is the tendency to misattribute the causes of behavior, often overemphasizing personal characteristics and underestimating situational factors.

Everything You Need To Know About The Halo Effect

25 September 2023

The halo effect occurs when an initial positive first impression unduly influences your opinion of that person as a whole.

Everything You Need To Know About The Framing Effect

08 June 2023

When we make decisions based on how information is presented, rather than the information itself, we may be falling prey to a cognitive bias called the framing effect.

Everything You Need To Know About Declinism Bias

01 May 2023

We’ve all heard the old timers talk about how life was “back in my day.” It’s usually followed by fond recollections or a commentary about how much better life used to be. This kind of rosy recollection – that the past is somehow better than the present or the future – encapsulates the thinking behind […]

5 Questions to Improve Critical Thinking Skills

27 April 2023

Critical thinking involves reasoning, making judgments, and problem-solving. Critical thinking means becoming skilled in all of these. It means, in brief, thinking well.

What Is Critical Thinking and How Can It Be Improved?

06 February 2023

Critical thinking involves reasoning, making judgments, and problem-solving. Critical thinking means becoming skilled in all of these. It means, in brief, thinking well.

What Conspiracy Theory Do You Believe? Take Our Fun Quiz!

27 January 2023

Multiple-Choice Quizzes Help People Pass Fact Checks

06 October 2022

Fact checkers face the difficulty of getting readers to retain key bits of information from fact checks, and ultimately whether a claim is true or false. Online multiple-choice quizzes present an opportunity for encouraging users taking fact checks to engage with content and to learn more from the misinformation debunk. Previous work from The Center […]

Overcoming the Ambiguity Effect

27 April 2022

The decision to choose the known over the unknown is an example of “the ambiguity effect.”

Overcoming Negativity Bias

10 January 2022

Our brains are wired to remember negative experiences versus positive ones. As a result, our perception of the world around us could be skewed unless we work to counteract this natural tendency.

Everything You Need To Know About The Dunning-Kruger Effect

02 December 2021

The Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when people believe that they are smarter, more capable, and higher-performing than they really are.

Everything You Need to Know About the Availability Heuristic

18 November 2021

The availability heuristic allows us to make decisions quickly and solve problems based on the information we have stored in our memory banks for quick access.