David Rand

Professor of Management Science & Brain and Cognitive Sciences | MIT

PostedSeptember 12, 2023

AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar

Tags2023, Politics, Misinformation

Featured Articles

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio A. Arechar, Dean Eckles, and David Rand (2021). Nature

Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds

Jennifer Allen, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2021). Science Advances

Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality

Gordon Pennycook and David Rand (2019). PNAS

Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning

Gordon Pennycook and David Rand (2018). Cognition

Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News

Gordon Pennycook, Tyrone Cannon, and David Rand (2018). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General