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Beyond Friends: Exploring the Effects of Unknown Users' Social Media Posts on Individuals’ Perceptions and Behaviors

Mengke Wu, Jiyeon Chang, Ziv Epstein and David G. Rand (2025). Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

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PostedJuly 20, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2025, Social networks

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

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

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

The distorting effects of producer strategies: Why engagement does not reliably reveal consumer preferences for misinformation

Alexander J. Stewart, Antonio A. Arechar, David G. Rand, and Joshua B. Plotkin (2024). PNAS 121(10), e2315195121.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Misinformation, Social networks, Computational Models

What Makes News Sharable on Social Media?

Xi Chen, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2023). Journal of Quantitative Description. 3. https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2023.007

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PostedSeptember 11, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2023, Social networks

The social media context interferes with truth discernment

Ziv Epstein, Nathaniel Sirlin, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2023). Science Advances. 9(9). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo6169.

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PostedJanuary 5, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2023, Accuracy Prompts, Misinformation, Social networks

Measuring exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter

Mohsen Mosleh and David G. Rand (2022). Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34769-6

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

Field Experiments on Social Media

Mohsen Mosleh, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2021). Current Directions in Psychological Science. 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214211054761.

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PostedApril 26, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2021, `Review articles, Field experiments, Social networks

Perverse Consequences of Debunking in a Twitter Field Experiment: Being Corrected for Posting False News Increases Subsequent Sharing of Low Quality, Partisan, and Toxic Content

Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel, Dean Eckles, and David G. Rand (2021). CHI’21. Article 182.

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PostedApril 15, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsField experiments, 2021, Social networks, Misinformation, Fact-Checking

Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter

Mohsen Mosleh, Gordon Pennycook, Antonio A. Arechar, and David Rand (2021). Nature Communications. 12(921) doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20043-0

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PostedApril 9, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Social networks, 2021, Misinformation

Shared Partisanship Dramatically Increases Social Tie Formation in a Twitter Field Experiment

Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel, and David G. Rand (2021). PNAS. 118 (7) e2022761118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022761118

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PostedApril 7, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2021, Field experiments, Social networks

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio A. Arechar, Dean Eckles, and David G. Rand (2021). Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03344-2

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PostedApril 6, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsField experiments, 2021, Social networks, Accuracy Prompts, Misinformation

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

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

Information gerrymandering and undemocratic decisions

Alexander J. Stewart, Mohsen Mosleh, Marina Diakonova, Antonio A. Arechar, David G. Rand, and Joshua B. Plotkin (2019). Nature 573, 117–121 . doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1507-6

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PostedSeptember 26, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Politics, Social networks, 2019, Misinformation, Computational Models

Indirect Reciprocity and the Evolution of Prejudicial Groups

Roger M.Whitaker, Gualtiero B. Colombo, and David G. Rand (2018). Scientific Reports. 8:13247.

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PostedSeptember 28, 2018
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2018, Cooperation, Intergroup, Social networks, Computational Models

Population Structure Promotes the Evolution of Intuitive Cooperation and Inhibits Deliberation

Mohsen Mosleh and David G. Rand (2018). Scientific Reports. 8, 6293.

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PostedApril 20, 2018
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Intuition, Social networks, 2018, Computational Models
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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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