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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

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PostedDecember 31, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Categoriescategory-year

When do we punish people who don’t?

Justin W. Martin, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand, and Fiery Cushman (2019). Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104040.

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PostedDecember 23, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPunishment, 2019

Are those who believe in God really more prosocial?

Michael N. Stagnaro, Antonio A. Arechar, and David G. Rand (2019). Religion, Brain & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2019.1695656.

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PostedDecember 16, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsReligion, Cooperation, 2019, Intuition

The role of inequity aversion in microloan defaults

Matthew R. Jordan, Willian T. Dickens, Oliver P. Hauser, and David G. Rand (2019). Behavioural Public Policy. doi:10.1017/bpp.2019.29.

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PostedDecember 9, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2019, Cooperation, Punishment

Repetition increases perceived truth equally for plausible and implausible statements

Liza K. Fazio, David G. Rand, and Gordon Pennycook (2019). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 26, pp. 1705–1710.

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PostedNovember 11, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2019, Misinformation

Community Violence and Prosociality: Experiencing and Committing Violence Predicts Norm-Enforcing Punishment but Not Cooperation

Rebecca Littman, Suzanne Estrada, Michael N. Stagnaro, Yarrow Dunham, David Rand, and Arielle Baskin-Sommers (2019). Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi:10.1177/1948550619849431.

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PostedNovember 8, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPunishment, Cooperation, 2019
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