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Technique-based inoculation against real-world misinformation.
In recent years, numerous psychological interventions have been developed to reduce susceptibility to misinformation. Inoculation theory has become an increasingly common framework for reducing susceptibility to both individual...
The role of 'non-knowledge' in crisis policymaking
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Recent complex and cross-boundary policy problems, such as climate change, pandemics, and financial crises, have recentred debates about state capacity, democratic discontent and the ‘crisis of expertise’. These...
Recent complex and cross-boundary policy problems, such as climate change, pandemics, and financial crises, have recentred debates about state capacity, democratic discontent and the ‘crisis of expertise’. These...
Brief Report
A number of studies have demonstrated schema-related misinformation effects in typical individuals, but no research to date has examined this with witnesses
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), despite their impaired ability...
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), despite their impaired ability...
Brief Report
A number of studies have demonstrated schema-related misinformation effects in typical individuals, but no research to date has examined this with witnesses
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), despite their impaired ability...
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), despite their impaired ability...
Psychological inoculation can reduce susceptibility to misinformation in large rational agent networks.
The unchecked spread of misinformation is recognized as an increasing threat to public, scientific and democratic health. Online networks are a contributing cause of this spread, with echo chambers and polarization indicative of...
Published by: Royal Society open science
The role of 'non-knowledge' in crisis policymaking
Background:
Recent complex and cross-boundary policy problems, such as climate change, pandemics, and financial crises, have recentred debates about state capacity, democratic discontent and the ‘crisis of expertise’. These...
Recent complex and cross-boundary policy problems, such as climate change, pandemics, and financial crises, have recentred debates about state capacity, democratic discontent and the ‘crisis of expertise’. These...
Vaccine Confidence and Hesitancy at the Start of COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment in the UK
Chrissy H Roberts, Hannah Brindle, Nina T Rogers, Rosalind M Eggo, Luisa Enria, Shelley Lees
Dec 15, 2021
Background: Approval for the use of COVID-19 vaccines has been granted in a number of countries but there are concerns that vaccine uptake may be low amongst certain groups. Methods: This study used a mixed methods approach...
How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020).
COVID-19 risk perception and hoax beliefs in the US immediately before and after the announcement of President Trump's diagnosis.
A notable challenge of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been public scepticism over the severity of the disease, or even its existence. Such scepticism is politically skewed in the USA, with conservatives more likely to downplay or...
Published by: Royal Society open science
Technique-based inoculation against real-world misinformation.
In recent years, numerous psychological interventions have been developed to reduce susceptibility to misinformation. Inoculation theory has become an increasingly common framework for reducing susceptibility to both individual...
Once (but not twice) upon a time
Psychological inoculation has proven effective at reducing susceptibility to misinformation. We present a novel storytelling approach to inoculation against susceptibility to the conjunction fallacy (dmeta‐analysis = 0.82), a...
Social media behavior is associated with vaccine hesitancy.
Understanding how vaccine hesitancy relates to online behavior is crucial for addressing current and future disease outbreaks. We combined survey data measuring attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccine with Twitter data in two...
Inoculating Against Fake News About COVID-19
The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has been accompanied by a large amount of misleading and false information about the virus, especially on social media. In this article, we explore the coronavirus...
COVID-19 risk perception and hoax beliefs in the US immediately before and after the announcement of President Trump's diagnosis.
A notable challenge of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been public scepticism over the severity of the disease, or even its existence. Such scepticism is politically skewed in the USA, with conservatives more likely to downplay or...
How Can Psychological Science Help Counter the Spread of Fake News?
Sander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek, Rakoen Maertens, Melisa Basol, Ondřej Kácha, Steve Rathje, Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg
Apr 13, 2021
In recent years, interest in the psychology of fake news has rapidly increased. We outline the various interventions within psychological science aimed at countering the spread of fake news and misinformation online, focusing...
Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world.
Jon Roozenbeek, Claudia R Schneider, Sarah Dryhurst, John Kerr, Alexandra LJ Freeman, Gabriel Recchia, Anne Marthe van der Bles, Sander van der Linden
Oct 26, 2020
Misinformation about COVID-19 is a major threat to public health. Using five national samples from the UK (n = 1050 and n = 1150), Ireland (n = 700), the USA (n = 700), Spain (n = 700) and Mexico (n = 700), we examine predictors...
Psychological inoculation can reduce susceptibility to misinformation in large rational agent networks.
The unchecked spread of misinformation is recognized as an increasing threat to public, scientific and democratic health. Online networks are a contributing cause of this spread, with echo chambers and polarization indicative of...
Inoculating Against Fake News About COVID-19.
The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has been accompanied by a large amount of misleading and false information about the virus, especially on social media. In this article, we explore the coronavirus...
Disentangling Item and Testing Effects in Inoculation Research on Online Misinformation
Online misinformation is a pervasive global problem. In response, psychologists have recently explored the theory of psychological inoculation: If people are preemptively exposed to a weakened version of a misinformation...
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