2017 could be a tough year: Donald Trump, fake news, media bias, Brexit, climate change deniers, not to mention terrorism. How do we understand this? Are they connected in any way? Epistemic trust can be a useful framework to view them, but first you'll probably want to know what epistemic means, what epistemic trust is, and what it has to do with the growing challenges we face. Epistemic means knowledge. As in, information, news, truth. Epistemic trust is about who we decide

Mentalizing is like mind-reading. But, since we can't actually read minds, it's the closest we come. Put another way, mentalizing is our ability to know, or guess at, people's reasons for what they do. It helps us understand why. Mentalizing uses observations - things we see and hear - to tell us what is (probably) in people's minds, which we can't. We mentalize in all situations involving other people, from the most mundane wait in the subway station to the buzz of messaging