🚨New in PNAS Nexus🚨

Twitter field exps
-Users block counter-partisans 12x more than co-partisans
-Dems block Reps more than vice-versa

Survey exps
-Why block? To not see blocked user's posts
-Dem/Rep diff prob bc Dems block misinfo/toxic sharers more

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I am thrilled to announce the publication of my paper 'Misinformation, Observational Equivalence, and the Possibility of Rationality,' in Philosophical Psychology. 📚✨

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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🚨Book!🚨
'Outraged: Why We Fight about Morality and Politics' has an Amazon listing:
'A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us'

We're hiring 2 data scientists to work w/faculty and students in our new Social Science Data and Computing Lab. Master’s preferred, but BA/BS + strong evidence of relevant skills also encouraged to apply. Pay begins at $83K. Apply/share with your students!
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Nudge-based misinformation interventions are effective nature.com/articles/s4159… Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social et al.

'The nudge intervention was effective at improving sharing discernment in conditions with lower proportions of misinformation, providing ecologically valid support for the use of

Misinformation does not reduce trust in accurate search results, but warning banners may backfire nature.com/articles/s4159… by Mor Naaman (@[email protected]) et al. cc Sander van der Linden

'...while a warning about unreliable sources might decrease trust in #misinformation , it significantly decreases

Hause made an amazing chrome extension that makes Twitter much more usable for academics. It 'greys out' anything that doesn't have links to journal articles or news.

Check it out!

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Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts. Thread 1/10🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s4156…

Update on LLMs countering conspiracies: GPT4turbo's debunks were 99.2% accurate!
Fact-checker evaluated 128 AI claims (all claims from a representative convo for each conspiracy topic): 127 true, 1 misleading, 0 false!
Training data prob has LOTS on these conspiracies...

Who falls for online misinformation? A meta-analysis on demographic and psychological factors impacting misinformation susceptibility.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…
My lovely coauthors: Alan Novaes Tump, Nina Ehmann, philipp lorenz-spreen, Ralph Hertwig, Anton Gollwitzer, Ralf Kurvers 1/n

Important point which I hope gets more widely internalized 👇

A poll for the cog psych's out there:

Is the Illusion of Truth Effect (Illusory Truth) primarily a memory phenomenon that exploits a bias, or is it a cognitive bias, itself?

🚨New WP🚨

Repetition increases belief ('illusory truth'). Does this mean politicians can just repeat any claims and make them widely believed by everyone?

NO! We find repetition does NOT increase belief in claims from politicians who one DISTRUSTS
osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/8

An updated version of our AI-chatbot-conspiracy-intervention working paper is posted. The bigger changes in thread below:

(great explainer in Dave's thread + listen to me talk about the paper here: cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…)

New preprint w King/Kaphingst. When it comes to discernment for more specialized media (e.g., cancer news) does a more targeted literacy intervention beat a generic one? In this study, health-focused news tips caused undue skepticism of accurate news. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

🚨New review🚨 Do warning labels on misinformation actually work?

In Current Opinion in Psychology, David G. Rand & I show that the answer is YES: warnings can reduce belief & sharing by ~25-50%!
We also review moderators (eg more visible=bigger effect)
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨NOW OUT in JEPS🍾🥳🚨

➡️Short interventions circulated on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic by Sundhedsstyrelsen reduce intentions to share misinformation and boost people's feelings of competence

Paper: cup.org/3QcmSwc /w Lasse Lindekilde Michael Bang Petersen
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Fun radio interview on CBC Radio Quirks & Quarks about our latest paper aired this morning!

cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

🚨 New pre-print 📢

In this study, I used a difference-in-differences design to evaluate how a long-term media literacy course affects students' ability to judge news accuracy.

Unlike many short-term interventions, this course was integrated into the school curriculum. 🧑‍🎓🏫