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Leaf Van Boven in the popular press

Leaf Van Boven

CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Leaf Van Boven (Social) published an article in Politico Magazine about the misleading statistical implications of a recent tweet of the president's. In the article, Van Boven and his colleague Paul Slovic at the University of Oregon suggest that the president played a "psychological trick" in the way he presented a statistic from a recent government report on terrorism. Read the Politico Magazine article.