<< In today's political climate in particular, we should be aware that when facts aren't clear, we may be biologically tuned to allow seemingly confident people to hold more sway on our own beliefs >>
How our brains are biologically tuned to be influenced by confident people. Dec. 13, 2016.
http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-brains-biologically-tuned-confident-people.html
Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn, Arndis Simonsen, Chris D. Frith and Nathaniel D. Daw. Independent Neural Computation of Value from Other People's Confidence. J. of Neurosci. 9 Dec. 2016, 4490-15; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4490-15.2016
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2016/12/09/JNEUROSCI.4490-15.2016