Check out some more coverage of a recent paper we published by @mikeybiddlestone.bsky.social @unikent.bsky.social
& colleagues about how to beat misinformation!

holistic.news/en/recognizi...

🚨New open access paper out in BJP special issue "Psychological Understanding of Misinformation and Disinformation in the Face of Environmental Crises"!

“Fighting fire with fire: Prebunking with the use of a plausible meta-conspiracy framing” 🧵👇 1/12
📖 doi.org/10.1111/bjop...

Our recent paper on improving AOT and reducing #misinformation susceptibility with prebunking (@rakoenmaertens.bsky.social
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social et al.) was picked up by
@psypost.bsky.social!

www.psypost.org/a-simple-cog...

Our article "Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs" has now been published open access in JESP!
@rakoenmaertens.bsky.social
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…
🧵👇

🚨New paper🚨Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation 1/17
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our meta-analysis "Reasons to believe: A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs" is now published at Psychological Bulletin!
Please refer to this thread, ResearchGate, and PsyArXiv for details!
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Our work with the Digipatch team was picked up by IFLScience!

www.iflscience.com/how-to-deal-...

"People who are motivated by obtaining power...may share misinformation...as a form of brokerage to gain a following".
Read our full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A few years ago, Douglas, Sutton and I suggested that conspiracy beliefs might be linked to epistemic needs (to feel informed), existential needs (to feel secure), and social needs (to feel valued). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Two new papers with our collaborators examine this claim 1/8

🚨Our meta-analysis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs has been accepted at Psychological Bulletin!🚨“Reasons to believe: A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs” osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇 1/16

Really cool work on the effect of conspiracy theory exposure on intentions to use alternative medicines! Only the fictitious scenario had an effect. Super important component of research designs to take into consideration for people examining the effects of exposure to conspiracy theories 👇

Hi Bluesky and newcomers! 👋I'm a #misinformation researcher with the CONSPIRACY_FX team at the University of Kent. Here's a paper we recently published with the magnificent @paulbertin.bsky.social and Ricky Green on social identity responses to the announcement of the European Super League 👇

Our new paper led by Wojtek Podsiadlowski shows that avoidant coping is yet another reason those high in narcissism are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories: doi.org/10.1111/bjso... Avoidant coping also partially explains the link between narcissism and anti-social online behaviours.

🚨Check out our new pre-print!🚨 “Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs” 1/9
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The #CrankyUncles mobile app for training critical thinking and overcoming misinformation has been adapted to improve vaccine attitudes in Ghana:

doi.org/10.1080/2164...

#edu #health #publicHealth #decisionScience #medicine #bioethics #software #UI #tech

Check out our new paper with the DigiPatch team in Computers in Human Behavior “Why do People Share (Mis)Information? Power Motives in Social Media”. We investigate the role of power motives in sharing (mis)information on social media 1/9
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...