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Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce anti democratic attitudes and partisan animosity

Jan G. Voelkel, et al. (2024). Science. 386 (6719).

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PostedJuly 15, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics

Psychological underpinnings of partisan bias in tie formation on social media

Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel and David G. Rand (2024). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication.

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PostedJuly 15, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics, Social networks, Field experiments

Descriptive norms can “backfire” in hyper-polarized contexts

David G. Rand and Erez Yoeli (2024). PNAS Nexus, 3(10), pgae303.

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PostedJuly 3, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024

Accuracy prompts protect professional content moderators from the illusory truth effect

Hause Lin, Marlyn Thomas Savio, Xieyining Huang, Miriah Steiger, Rachel L Guevara, Dali Szostak, Gordon Pennycook, and David G Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus, 3(11), pgae481.

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PostedJuly 3, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024, Misinformation, Accuracy Prompts

Unraveling polarization: Insights into individual and collective dynamics

Kati Kish Bar-On, Eugen Dimant, Yphtach Lelkes, and David G Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus, 3(10), pgae426.

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PostedJuly 3, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024, `Review articles

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2024). Science. 385(6714), eadq1814.

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PostedJuly 2, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024, AI, Misinformation, Fact-Checking

Partisans neither expect nor receive reputational rewards for sharing falsehoods over truth online

Isaias Ghezae, Jillian J. Jordan, Izzy B. Gainsburg, Mohsen Mosleh, Gordon Pennycook, Robb Willer, and David G. Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus. 3(8), pgae287.

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PostedJuly 2, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsMisinformation, Politics, 2024, Social networks

Academics are more specific, and practitioners more sensitive, in forecasting interventions to strengthen democratic attitudes

James Y. Chu, Jan G. Voelkel, Michael N. Stagnaro, Suji Kang, James N. Druckman, and David G. Rand (2024). PNAS. 384(6699), 121 (3) e2307008121.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024, Crowdsourcing

Blocking of counter-partisan accounts drives political assortment on Twitter

Cameron Martel, Mohsen Mosleh, Qi Yang, Tauhid Zaman, and David G. Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus. 3(5), p.pgae161.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics, Social networks, Field experiments

On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration

Cameron Martel et al. (2024). Psychological science, 35(4), 435-450.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics, Misinformation, Accuracy Prompts

Increasing accuracy motivations using moral reframing does not reduce Republicans’ belief in false news

Michael N. Stagnaro, Sophia Pink, David G. Rand, and Robb Willer (2023). HKS Misinformation Review.

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PostedSeptember 12, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2023, Politics, Misinformation

Conscientiousness does not moderate the association between political ideology and susceptibility to fake news sharing

Hause Lin, David G. Rand, and Gordon Pennycook (2023). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001467

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PostedSeptember 12, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2023, Misinformation

Sincere or motivated? Partisan bias in advice-taking

Yunhao Zhang, and David G. Rand (2023). Judgment and Decision Making. 18, E29. doi:10.1017/jdm.2023.28

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PostedSeptember 12, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2023, Motivated Reasoning

Correcting misperceptions of out-partisans decreases American legislators’ support for undemocratic practices

James N. Druckman, Suji Kang, James Chu, Michael N. Stagnaro, Jan G. Voelkel, Joseph S. Mernyk, Sophia L. Pink, Chrystal Redekopp, David G. Rand, and Robb Willer (2023). PNAS. 120 (23) e2301836120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301836120

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PostedSeptember 10, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2023, Politics

No association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sample

Michael N. Stagnaro, Ben M. Tappin, and David G. Rand (2023). PNAS. 120 (32) e2301491120; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301491120

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PostedJanuary 23, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2023, Motivated Reasoning, Politics

Quantifying the potential persuasive returns to political microtargeting

Ben M. Tappin, Chloe Wittenberg, Luke B. Hewitt, Adam J. Berinsky, and David G. Rand (2023). PNAS. 120 (25) e2216261120; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216261120

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PostedJanuary 16, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2023, Politics

Reasoning about climate change

Bence Bago, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2023). PNAS Nexus. 2(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad100

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PostedJanuary 9, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Politics, Intuition, 2023, `Review articles

Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues

Ben M. Tappin, Adam J. Berinsky, and David G. Rand (2023). Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01551-7

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PostedJanuary 4, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2023, Politics, Motivated Reasoning, Elite cues

Birds of a feather don’t fact-check each other: Partisanship and the evaluation of news in Twitter’s Birdwatch crowdsourced fact-checking program

Jennifer Allen, Cameron Martel, and David G. Rand (2022). CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 245. p. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502040

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PostedNovember 1, 2022
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2022, Social networks, Crowdsourcing, Misinformation, Politics

Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes

Jan G. Voelkel, James Chu, Michael N. Stagnaro, Joseph S. Mernyk, Chrystal Redekopp, Sophia L. Pink, James N. Druckman, David G. Rand, and Robb Willer (2022). Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01466-9

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PostedNovember 1, 2022
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2022, Politics
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Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI


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Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online


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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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