Nina Wang
@ninawang.bsky.social
assistant prof @ York University studying misinfo and polarization
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Nina Wang
@ninawang.bsky.social
· Sep 15
I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
Reposted by Nina Wang
Now in PNAS! With @mmosleh.bsky.social and @dgrand.bsky.social
Examining news engagement across 7 platforms, we find:
- differences WRT political lean ("echo platforms")
- similarities WRT news quality (posting low qual news => more engagement)
Read paper and thread for more!
Examining news engagement across 7 platforms, we find:
- differences WRT political lean ("echo platforms")
- similarities WRT news quality (posting low qual news => more engagement)
Read paper and thread for more!
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Now in PNAS! With @mmosleh.bsky.social and @dgrand.bsky.social
Examining news engagement across 7 platforms, we find:
- differences WRT political lean ("echo platforms")
- similarities WRT news quality (posting low qual news => more engagement)
Read paper and thread for more!
Examining news engagement across 7 platforms, we find:
- differences WRT political lean ("echo platforms")
- similarities WRT news quality (posting low qual news => more engagement)
Read paper and thread for more!
Reposted by Nina Wang
📢POSTDOC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT📢
@nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.
Application deadline: Nov. 17.
Salary: ~$80k.
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
@nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.
Application deadline: Nov. 17.
Salary: ~$80k.
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
Northwestern Faculty Search -
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu
October 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
📢POSTDOC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT📢
@nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.
Application deadline: Nov. 17.
Salary: ~$80k.
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
@nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.
Application deadline: Nov. 17.
Salary: ~$80k.
facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
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The Budding Minds Lab at the University of Toronto is hiring a Postdoc in the developmental cognitive neuroscience of memory 🧠 🫧 This is (one of) my graduate labs and I can't recommend the department's people, resources, location, or culture strongly enough! see buddingmindslab.utoronto.ca for more
Budding Minds
We are a developmental cognitive neuroscience lab located on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. Our research aims to understand how we form and recall memories, and how we can use...
buddingmindslab.utoronto.ca
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Budding Minds Lab at the University of Toronto is hiring a Postdoc in the developmental cognitive neuroscience of memory 🧠 🫧 This is (one of) my graduate labs and I can't recommend the department's people, resources, location, or culture strongly enough! see buddingmindslab.utoronto.ca for more
Reposted by Nina Wang
People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive itself and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise.
@wimdeneys.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@wimdeneys.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Humans and LLMs rate deliberation as superior to intuition on complex reasoning tasks - Communications Psychology
People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive itself and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise.
www.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive itself and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise.
@wimdeneys.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@wimdeneys.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reposted by Nina Wang
📢The 2026 edition of the SPSP Misinformation & Belief Science preconference will be held virtually on Tuesday, February 24.🎉 Submit an abstract for either a single presenter or data blitz presentation by October 23 (link below) and don’t forget to register to attend by February 13!
October 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
📢The 2026 edition of the SPSP Misinformation & Belief Science preconference will be held virtually on Tuesday, February 24.🎉 Submit an abstract for either a single presenter or data blitz presentation by October 23 (link below) and don’t forget to register to attend by February 13!
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📣 New publication alert! In a large, diverse sample, #CompanionDogs with a history of trauma before 6 months were seen as more fearful and/or aggressive than trauma-free dogs or those with trauma later on in life
🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📣 New publication alert! In a large, diverse sample, #CompanionDogs with a history of trauma before 6 months were seen as more fearful and/or aggressive than trauma-free dogs or those with trauma later on in life
🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...
I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
September 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
Reposted by Nina Wang
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
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I’m recruiting a PhD student in Social Psychology @ TCU for this application cycle!
My lab examines how beliefs and attitudes form, generalize, & shape behavior. We apply this general interest to the study of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and health behavior.
My lab examines how beliefs and attitudes form, generalize, & shape behavior. We apply this general interest to the study of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and health behavior.
September 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I’m recruiting a PhD student in Social Psychology @ TCU for this application cycle!
My lab examines how beliefs and attitudes form, generalize, & shape behavior. We apply this general interest to the study of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and health behavior.
My lab examines how beliefs and attitudes form, generalize, & shape behavior. We apply this general interest to the study of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and health behavior.
Reposted by Nina Wang
🚨 YA’LL!! HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS PAPER TO COME OUT FOR AGES. IT IS SO SATURN.
I MEAN, IT IS SO GOOD.
SAME THING.
(JUST READ IT)
I MEAN, IT IS SO GOOD.
SAME THING.
(JUST READ IT)
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🚨 YA’LL!! HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS PAPER TO COME OUT FOR AGES. IT IS SO SATURN.
I MEAN, IT IS SO GOOD.
SAME THING.
(JUST READ IT)
I MEAN, IT IS SO GOOD.
SAME THING.
(JUST READ IT)
Reposted by Nina Wang
Our new study: a large-scale RCT showing that standard pedagogical techniques, but also a chatbot (an old school, LLM-less, scripted one!) can help high school students better understand vaccination and develop more positive attitudes.
My very first paper has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour!
In it, we demonstrate that both a chatbot and a more traditional pedagogical intervention can help improve adolescents' knowledge of vaccines and their attitudes towards vaccination.
In it, we demonstrate that both a chatbot and a more traditional pedagogical intervention can help improve adolescents' knowledge of vaccines and their attitudes towards vaccination.
September 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Our new study: a large-scale RCT showing that standard pedagogical techniques, but also a chatbot (an old school, LLM-less, scripted one!) can help high school students better understand vaccination and develop more positive attitudes.
Reposted by Nina Wang
In this new Commentary in @natclimate.nature.com, I reflect on the recent focus on truth discernment in #misinfo research and argue that this outcome alone may not be beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes because... 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Truth discernment may not help to overcome misinformation
Nature Climate Change - Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. However, pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
In this new Commentary in @natclimate.nature.com, I reflect on the recent focus on truth discernment in #misinfo research and argue that this outcome alone may not be beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes because... 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Nina Wang
New preprint: From vaccinations to masking, politics predicts health behaviors. In this review we discuss these differences in light of classic psychological theories of group identity and behavioral decision-making.
We welcome any feedback on this working paper!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We welcome any feedback on this working paper!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
September 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
New preprint: From vaccinations to masking, politics predicts health behaviors. In this review we discuss these differences in light of classic psychological theories of group identity and behavioral decision-making.
We welcome any feedback on this working paper!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We welcome any feedback on this working paper!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Nina Wang
Are you interested in topics related to conflict and intergroup relations *broadly construed*? Come join us as a postdoc in the Dispute Research Research Center! This position is up to 3 years, comes with your own research funding, and a phenomenal network of past DRRC postdocs.
Apply now for Kellogg’s DRRC Postdoc Fellowship, which supports outstanding research in conflict and cooperation, offering dedicated time for scholarship, access to exceptional resources, and a vibrant academic community. Deadline: Nov 1.
t.co/UDZwJCqDw5
t.co/UDZwJCqDw5
https://tinyurl.com/drrcpostdoc2025
t.co
August 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Are you interested in topics related to conflict and intergroup relations *broadly construed*? Come join us as a postdoc in the Dispute Research Research Center! This position is up to 3 years, comes with your own research funding, and a phenomenal network of past DRRC postdocs.
Reposted by Nina Wang
Seeing the same fake news headlines multiple times makes people view sharing them as more acceptable, suggesting that repeated exposure can weaken social norms against spreading misinformation on social media.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MisinfoResearch
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MisinfoResearch
Replicability and generalizability of the repeated exposure effect on moral condemnation of fake news - Nature Communications
Repeated exposure to misinformation reduces moral condemnation of sharing those falsehoods online. Here, the authors show that this finding replicates and generalizes to new settings and headlines.
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Seeing the same fake news headlines multiple times makes people view sharing them as more acceptable, suggesting that repeated exposure can weaken social norms against spreading misinformation on social media.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MisinfoResearch
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MisinfoResearch
Reposted by Nina Wang
Curious about the mechanisms behind biased reasoning and metacognition? 🤔
📍 Come see our poster at #CCN2025, Aug 12, 1:30–4:30pm
We show how a biased drift-diffusion model can explain choice, RT and confidence in a base-rate neglect task, revealing why more deliberation doesn’t always fix bias.
📍 Come see our poster at #CCN2025, Aug 12, 1:30–4:30pm
We show how a biased drift-diffusion model can explain choice, RT and confidence in a base-rate neglect task, revealing why more deliberation doesn’t always fix bias.
August 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Curious about the mechanisms behind biased reasoning and metacognition? 🤔
📍 Come see our poster at #CCN2025, Aug 12, 1:30–4:30pm
We show how a biased drift-diffusion model can explain choice, RT and confidence in a base-rate neglect task, revealing why more deliberation doesn’t always fix bias.
📍 Come see our poster at #CCN2025, Aug 12, 1:30–4:30pm
We show how a biased drift-diffusion model can explain choice, RT and confidence in a base-rate neglect task, revealing why more deliberation doesn’t always fix bias.
Reposted by Nina Wang
New in TiCS w @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social
It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model
Time for new approaches:
o True/False → Content that misleads
o Belief → Behavior
o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings
It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model
Time for new approaches:
o True/False → Content that misleads
o Belief → Behavior
o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings
August 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
New in TiCS w @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social
It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model
Time for new approaches:
o True/False → Content that misleads
o Belief → Behavior
o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings
It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model
Time for new approaches:
o True/False → Content that misleads
o Belief → Behavior
o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings
Reposted by Nina Wang
🚨Paper alert
Are you interested in interventions against climate disinformation? In this new paper, we introduce the Climate Disinformation Corpus N = 78 real, validated climate disinformation statements that can be use as exprimental stimuli
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Are you interested in interventions against climate disinformation? In this new paper, we introduce the Climate Disinformation Corpus N = 78 real, validated climate disinformation statements that can be use as exprimental stimuli
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1/n
<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Behavioural science research has the potential to develop evidence-based strategies to fight disinformation about climate science and climate mitigation action; however, this research has yet to be c...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚨Paper alert
Are you interested in interventions against climate disinformation? In this new paper, we introduce the Climate Disinformation Corpus N = 78 real, validated climate disinformation statements that can be use as exprimental stimuli
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1/n
Are you interested in interventions against climate disinformation? In this new paper, we introduce the Climate Disinformation Corpus N = 78 real, validated climate disinformation statements that can be use as exprimental stimuli
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1/n
Reposted by Nina Wang
Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities.
Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!
Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!
Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
grad.uwo.ca
July 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities.
Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!
Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!
Reposted by Nina Wang
She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award!
Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.
Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.
Elizabeth Page-Gould recognized with Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology
The Society for Experimental Social Psychology has recognized Elizabeth Page-Gould with a Career Trajectory Award in recognition of uniquely creative and influential scholarly productivity.
www.psych.utoronto.ca
July 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award!
Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.
Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.
Reposted by Nina Wang
Just published: "Unraveling the Big Lie: Participatory Disinformation and the 2020 Election." Thrilled to see this work out in the world and part of such an amazing compilation. My chapter features my initial research and model on "participatory disinformation": academic.oup.com/book/60493?l...
Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy
Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar
academic.oup.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Just published: "Unraveling the Big Lie: Participatory Disinformation and the 2020 Election." Thrilled to see this work out in the world and part of such an amazing compilation. My chapter features my initial research and model on "participatory disinformation": academic.oup.com/book/60493?l...
Reposted by Nina Wang
"Defining deliberation for dual-process models of reasoning" is now published. Free online access to the published Nat Rev Psy version: rdcu.be/erM5T
June 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Defining deliberation for dual-process models of reasoning" is now published. Free online access to the published Nat Rev Psy version: rdcu.be/erM5T
Reposted by Nina Wang
Improving curation is tough: "Overall, we present evidence that inoculation does not reduce engagement with emotional content and that the benefits of inoculation found in controlled experiments do not transfer to more realistic contexts." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
June 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Improving curation is tough: "Overall, we present evidence that inoculation does not reduce engagement with emotional content and that the benefits of inoculation found in controlled experiments do not transfer to more realistic contexts." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Reposted by Nina Wang
🚨In PNAS🚨
The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias
But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems!
The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias
But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems!
The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🚨In PNAS🚨
The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias
But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems!
The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias
But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems!
The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Nina Wang
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...