ABSTRACT

As we write, we are in the final days of the Scottish referendum campaign. We are surrounded by a cacophony of voices telling us what to think. The campaigns are unrelenting in their attempts to mobilise our support. Which do we heed, and which do we ignore? Whose information do we trust? How do we manoeuvre our way through this unendingly multivocal world? And what does psychology have to tell us about the way in which we deal with these dilemmas?