rumors, false news, received ideas ... Who to trust? How do you know if information is reliable? The Quai des Savoirs is transformed into a bodybuilding room ... of your gray matter from December 26!
sharpening its critical and interactive spirit: this is the news Exhibition of the Quai des Savoirs. Through everyday experiences, inspired by research in behavioral and social psychology, cognitive sciences and sociology, explore trap situations, unmask ready -made ideas, play information.
You will come out knowing that 'We must not doubt everything, that we should not doubt anything, but that it is necessary to doubt methodically!
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between permanent and absolute doubt of the conspirator and the pure naivety of the candid, how to see clearly, to unmask ready -made ideas, to verify the information? To sharpen your critical mind is to become aware of what can make us vulnerable: our prejudices, our habits of thought, our emotions and sometimes our unjustified mistrust. It is, sometimes also, admitting not knowing ... In short, it is learning to adjust your degree of confidence. To better understand the world in which we evolve, it is more than ever essential to become aware of the cognitive biases around us, to know how information circulates, is put forward or on the contrary hidden.
It is All the object of this exhibition, which aims to experience his critical mind, to acquire a certain number of tools and reflexes that can be implemented on a daily basis, to discover the main cognitive biases with which we face daily for better the Go around, to understand the contributions of the scientific approach in the face of these phenomena and, finally and above all, to regain confidence in us!
The city is your land of Game. It symbolizes our daily life, with its landmarks, its frantic rhythms of life, its culture of immediacy. It also makes it possible to realize that the proposed test situations are not so far from "real life". We therefore wander in a fictitious city with its town hall, its kiosk, its performance hall, its food truck, its convenience store. There is even a stele with dead ideas, dedicated to received ideas and outdated theories. Each place makes it possible to understand how our behavior and our way of thinking and acting can be altered by cognitive biases. Each situation encountered is a pretext to test its reasoning capacities.
over your journey, you will be confronted with false speeches and real arguments to convince, with not really objective media, received ideas and From mental manipulation, to the secrets of clairvoyance, to the fallibility of its memory, to the influence of the group on the individual, to the strings and to the techniques of marketing to push for consumption ... You will wander in a bombed universe of Images, shock words, multiple requests, incentives, false pubs or hollow discourse: your judgment capacity will be put to the test!
for Playing this game, you will be equipped with a connected bracelet. Your goal is to take up the challenges and test yourself on different experiences. For each test, you will have access to a decryption allowing you to analyze and understand your mistakes and better face these situations in the future.
So, ready to test your brain and sharpen your critical mind?
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From December 26, 2021 to November 6, 2022
Expo with connected bracelet
of the visit: 1h30
All audiences/From 10 years old
Quadrilingual Exhibition French/English/Spanish/LSF />-
This exhibition is co-designed and co-produced by CAP Sciences, the Quai des Savoirs and the Palais de la Découverte. It was offered to the public for the first time in Cap Sciences in Bordeaux from May 19 to November 14, 2021. It was presented at the Quai des Savoirs from December 26, 2021 to November 6, 2022. It will then start a tour in other cities in France before its presentation at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris to its reopening after renovation.
The Casden is a partner of the exhibition.