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Political sectarianism in America: A poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion, and moralization

Eli J. Finkel, Christopher A. Bail, Mina Cikara, Peter H. Ditto, Shanto Iyengar, Samara Klar, Lilliana Mason, Mary C. McGrath, Brendan Nyhan, David G. Rand, Linda J. Skitka, Joshua A. Tucker, Jay J. Van Bavel, Cynthia S. Wang, James N. Druckman (2020). Science. doi:10.1126/science.abe1715

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PostedNovember 2, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2020, `Review articles

Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and identity-protective bias in political belief formation

Ben M. Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2020). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000974

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PostedSeptember 12, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Politics, 2020, Motivated Reasoning

Who Gets Credit for AI-Generated Art?

Ziv Epstein, Sydney Levine, David G. Rand, and Iyad Rahwan (2020). iScience. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2020.101515

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PostedSeptember 12, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, AI

The Debunking Handbook 2020

Stephan Lewandowsky, John Cook, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, et al. (2020). The Debunking Handbook 2020. Available at https://sks.to/db2020. doi: 10.17910/b7.1182

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PostedApril 7, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, `Review articles, Misinformation

Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy nudge intervention

Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres, Yunhao Zhang, and David G. Rand (2020). Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/0956797620939054

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PostedMarch 25, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, Intuition, Misinformation, Accuracy Prompts

The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Stories Increases Perceived Accuracy of Stories Without Warnings

Gordon Pennycook, Adam Bear, Evan Collins, and David G. Rand (2020). Management Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3478. [Data and code]

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PostedFebruary 26, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, Misinformation, Fact-Checking

Framing effects in the prisoner’s dilemma but not in the dictator game

Sebastian J. Goerg, David G. Rand, and Gari Walkowitz (2019). Journal of the Economic Science Association. 6. p. 1-12. doi:10.1007/s40881-019-00081-1.

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PostedFebruary 11, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, 2020

Self-reported willingness to share political news articles in online surveys correlates with actual sharing on Twitter

Mohsen Mosleh, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2020). PLOS ONE. 15(2): e0228882. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228882 

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PostedFebruary 10, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, Misinformation, Social networks

Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

Jay Van Bavel, et al. (2020) Nature Human Behaviour. 4, 460–471.

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PostedFebruary 1, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, `Review articles

Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news

Cameron Martel, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2019). Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 47 doi:10.1186/s41235-020-00252-3.

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PostedFebruary 1, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, 2020, Misinformation

Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data

Irene V. Pasquetto, et al. (2020). HKS Misinformation Review. doi:10.37016/mr-2020-49.

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PostedFebruary 1, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, Misinformation

Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: Why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference

Ben Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2020). Current Opinion in Behavioral Science. 34. pp. 81-87.

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PostedJanuary 31, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, Politics, `Review articles, Motivated Reasoning

Prosociality in the economic Dictator Game is associated with less parochialism and greater willingness to vote for intergroup compromise

Mohsen Mosleh, Alexander J. Stewart, Joshua B. Plotkin, and David G. Rand (2020). Judgement and Decision Making. 15(1). pp. 1-6.

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PostedJanuary 28, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, 2020, Intergroup, Social networks

Globalization and the Rise and Fall of Cognitive Control

Mohsen Mosleh, Katelynn Kyker, Jonathan D. Cohen, and David G. Rand (2019). Nature Communications. 11(1), 1-10.

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PostedJanuary 22, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Social networks, 2020, Computational Models

Emphasizing publishers does not effectively reduce susceptibility to misinformation on social media

Nicholas Dias, Gordon Pennycook , and David G. Rand (2020). Misinformation Review. doi: 10.37016/mr-2020-001.

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PostedJanuary 14, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, Misinformation

Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines

Bence Bago, David G. Rand, and Gordon Pennycook (2020). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi:10.1037/xge0000729

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PostedJanuary 12, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, 2020, Motivated Reasoning, Misinformation

Will the crowd game the algorithm? Using laypersonjudgments to combat misinformation on social media bydownranking distrusted sources

Ziv Epstein, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2020). Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20). doi:10.1145/3313831.3376232

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PostedJanuary 11, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2020, Crowdsourcing, Misinformation

Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating

Ben Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2020). Cognition. 204, p.104375.

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PostedJanuary 2, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, Intuition, 2020, Motivated Reasoning

Featured Articles

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI


Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook


Jennifer Allen, Duncan Watts, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

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

 

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