The truth sandwich is baloney! New paper out. We show that the “truth sandwich” correction format (in which false information is bookended by factual information) does not enhance corrections. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Corrections *are* effective and how we measure their impact matters

Very excited to see this out today - led by the fabulous @emilyspearing.bsky.social

@lewan.bsky.social @brionyswire.bsky.social @tobyprike.bsky.social

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Renée DiResta talking on "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality" at the Harvard / Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series at 11.30am EST today. www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/renee-...

Terminating the grants to study misinformation is “an overt act of censoring and preventing accountability,” says Stephen Lewandowsky, a misinformation researcher at the University of Bristol. “Who other than a liar would cancel misinformation research?”
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Skyler Johnson talking on "Combating cancer misinformation: impacts, challenges and opportunities" at the Harvard / Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series at 3pm EST today! shorensteincenter.org/new-event/co...

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts, led by the amazing Anastasia Kozyreva.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am advertising a postdoc position to work on a cognitive psych project on misinformation 👇
Please share!

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

For data scientists and data engineers interested in democracy, please see positions posted at Northeastern for positions at the Internet Democracy Initiative (please reshare): northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Hi all, I'm hiring a new research assistant, please share with anyone who might be interested - thanks!
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Catch me next Wed March 6th at the Harvard/Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series (live & on zoom) for the public reveal of the results from our large collaborative megastudy testing nine misinformation interventions @dgrand.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social

shorensteincenter.org/new-event/mi...

Check out the special issue on Psych of Misinformation that you're in! Most of the articles are published now and they're both short and for a broad audience.

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/curr...

🚨New paper🚨 out in the International Journal of Press/Politics w/ Assaf Shamir and @jenny-oser.bsky.social 🎉

Here's what we learned from studying the composition of political content available to 600k+ registered U.S. voters on Twitter during the 2020 election.

doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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New: Fact-check of 2022 AZ fraud claims reduces false beliefs but no effect on general fraud/election beliefs sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/files/... (with Carey, Fogarty, Reifler, and great D students)

Raises questions about effectiveness of case-by-case corrections at countering broader false claims

just SEVEN DAYS LEFT to apply to work as a postdoc with us on fmri decoding, consciousness, higher order theories, and more! big collaboration with @jorge-morales.bsky.social & Rachel Denison among others. please apply!
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