Phúc Huỳnh Lê
@phuchuynhle.bsky.social
decision-making & misinfo, methodology, and R • #Purdue_UCSD27 #Grinnell22 #LHP1518 • 🏳️🌈🇻🇳🧠
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Begging PhD programs to agree on a common app with only letters of rec that writers upload once. These inane likert scales when students are applying to 15-20 programs is destroying my soul
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Begging PhD programs to agree on a common app with only letters of rec that writers upload once. These inane likert scales when students are applying to 15-20 programs is destroying my soul
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🚨New WP🚨
Dialogues with our AI DebunkBot:
✔️Reduced belief in antisemitic conspiracy theories among believers
✔️Effect durable at 1+ month
✔️Improved attitudes towards Jews among initially negative participants
🟰Debunking works for deeply rooted, identity-linked conspiracies
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Dialogues with our AI DebunkBot:
✔️Reduced belief in antisemitic conspiracy theories among believers
✔️Effect durable at 1+ month
✔️Improved attitudes towards Jews among initially negative participants
🟰Debunking works for deeply rooted, identity-linked conspiracies
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🚨New WP🚨
Dialogues with our AI DebunkBot:
✔️Reduced belief in antisemitic conspiracy theories among believers
✔️Effect durable at 1+ month
✔️Improved attitudes towards Jews among initially negative participants
🟰Debunking works for deeply rooted, identity-linked conspiracies
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Dialogues with our AI DebunkBot:
✔️Reduced belief in antisemitic conspiracy theories among believers
✔️Effect durable at 1+ month
✔️Improved attitudes towards Jews among initially negative participants
🟰Debunking works for deeply rooted, identity-linked conspiracies
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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If you’re at #psynom25, stop by my lab’s posters and talks!
today 12 - 1:30 PM:
Jae counters the assumption that demand for political fact-checks is low (167)
@katie-allen.bsky.social finds that while repetition inflates many judgments, it doesn’t always create an illusion of creativity (168)
today 12 - 1:30 PM:
Jae counters the assumption that demand for political fact-checks is low (167)
@katie-allen.bsky.social finds that while repetition inflates many judgments, it doesn’t always create an illusion of creativity (168)
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If you’re at #psynom25, stop by my lab’s posters and talks!
today 12 - 1:30 PM:
Jae counters the assumption that demand for political fact-checks is low (167)
@katie-allen.bsky.social finds that while repetition inflates many judgments, it doesn’t always create an illusion of creativity (168)
today 12 - 1:30 PM:
Jae counters the assumption that demand for political fact-checks is low (167)
@katie-allen.bsky.social finds that while repetition inflates many judgments, it doesn’t always create an illusion of creativity (168)
stop by my #psynom25 poster and learn what happens when ostracism (Cyberball) meets fake news ❤️🔥
tomorrow 10:40 - 11 AM:
I find that monetary incentives don't reduce illusory truth, even when people can rely on prior knowledge to secure a reward (117)
and 12 - 1:30 PM:
@phuchuynhle.bsky.social shows that chronic, but not acute, ostracism predicts belief in misinformation (052)
I find that monetary incentives don't reduce illusory truth, even when people can rely on prior knowledge to secure a reward (117)
and 12 - 1:30 PM:
@phuchuynhle.bsky.social shows that chronic, but not acute, ostracism predicts belief in misinformation (052)
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
stop by my #psynom25 poster and learn what happens when ostracism (Cyberball) meets fake news ❤️🔥
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"While high-quality content is posted more and receives more total engagement across platforms...a given author attracts higher levels of engagement when they post lower-quality content"
"pattern we find seems to be driven more by an underperformance of particularly popular high-quality outlets"
"pattern we find seems to be driven more by an underperformance of particularly popular high-quality outlets"
Divergent patterns of engagement with partisan and low-quality news across seven social media platforms | PNAS
In recent years, social media has become increasingly fragmented, as platforms evolve
and new alternatives emerge. Yet most research studies a sing...
www.pnas.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"While high-quality content is posted more and receives more total engagement across platforms...a given author attracts higher levels of engagement when they post lower-quality content"
"pattern we find seems to be driven more by an underperformance of particularly popular high-quality outlets"
"pattern we find seems to be driven more by an underperformance of particularly popular high-quality outlets"
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Am I reading this correctly?
A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?
What the hell?
A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?
What the hell?
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Am I reading this correctly?
A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?
What the hell?
A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?
What the hell?
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The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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Not sure what to do about the fact that this country’s latest illegal war is being waged by a presidential administration that consists, top to bottom, of people who lie about everything, all the time
On Hannity tonight, Fox News’ National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that it’s not clear whether the U.S. was able to destroy Iran’s nuclear site at Isfahan—despite Trump’s claim that all three sites have been “completely and totally obliterated.”
President Trump: “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.”
June 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Not sure what to do about the fact that this country’s latest illegal war is being waged by a presidential administration that consists, top to bottom, of people who lie about everything, all the time
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Here is a 9-min high-level summary of my group's work on using GPT4 to debunking conspiracies. "I've been accused of being an AI optimist. But really I'm an AI pragmatist..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHD2...
Correcting inaccurate beliefs using human-AI dialogues
YouTube video by David Rand
www.youtube.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here is a 9-min high-level summary of my group's work on using GPT4 to debunking conspiracies. "I've been accused of being an AI optimist. But really I'm an AI pragmatist..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHD2...
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it will take years to rebuild from the damage that is being done today to the NSF pipeline that supports so so many germinal experiences for students and trainees. 💔
-Across the 4 years of the grant 22! undergrads participated in the research process learning about experimental design and psychological research
We talk a lot about how the elimination of NSF funding affects grad student and postdocs- it it also diminishes the richness of undergraduate education
We talk a lot about how the elimination of NSF funding affects grad student and postdocs- it it also diminishes the richness of undergraduate education
May 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
it will take years to rebuild from the damage that is being done today to the NSF pipeline that supports so so many germinal experiences for students and trainees. 💔
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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Had a chat about “debunkbot” and the research supporting it on CBS Mornings yesterday!
www.cbsnews.com/video/ai-cha...
www.cbsnews.com/video/ai-cha...
May 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Had a chat about “debunkbot” and the research supporting it on CBS Mornings yesterday!
www.cbsnews.com/video/ai-cha...
www.cbsnews.com/video/ai-cha...
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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this is batshit
Oklahoma Education Commissar Ryan Walters announces new academic standards for the coming school year. Among other things, all students will be required to learn Trump's version of the 2020 election.
May 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
this is batshit
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Update: I have been able to confirm grants worth ~$6M were terminated but think the total may be as high as $94M.
If you or your colleagues got a termination letter, considering responding to the form. You can do so anonymously.
If you or your colleagues got a termination letter, considering responding to the form. You can do so anonymously.
Dear US-based misinfo/disinfo research community: I am looking to write about the impact of Friday night's NSF decision.
I understand that this is a stressful moment, but also believe it is worth giving the public an understanding of what's at stake.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQP...
I understand that this is a stressful moment, but also believe it is worth giving the public an understanding of what's at stake.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQP...
NSF misinfo/disinfo grant survey
This survey is run by Alexios Mantzarlis (mantzarlis.com) for his newsletter Faked Up (fakedup.org). The purpose is to understand the scale of the recent NSF decision (nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities) t...
docs.google.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Update: I have been able to confirm grants worth ~$6M were terminated but think the total may be as high as $94M.
If you or your colleagues got a termination letter, considering responding to the form. You can do so anonymously.
If you or your colleagues got a termination letter, considering responding to the form. You can do so anonymously.
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Me: someday my research will be mentioned in the opening paragraph of a New York Times article!
Also me: hmmm should have been more specific.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
Also me: hmmm should have been more specific.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Me: someday my research will be mentioned in the opening paragraph of a New York Times article!
Also me: hmmm should have been more specific.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
Also me: hmmm should have been more specific.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
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This statement from the NSF is insane.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
April 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This statement from the NSF is insane.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
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I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.
Friday Night Massacre of accurate information.
A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.
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Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky
wgntv.com/evanston/nor...
wgntv.com/evanston/nor...
Northwestern University to self-fund research despite Trump administration freeze
While university officials said they’ve still not received official word of such action, they acknowledged receiving about 100 stop-work orders from the federal government on roughly 100 fede…
wgntv.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky
wgntv.com/evanston/nor...
wgntv.com/evanston/nor...
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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If you’re at #psynom24, check out my lab’s posters today!
Katie finds that while repetition inflates many judgments, it doesn’t create an illusion of creativity (12-1:30 PM; 5168)
And @phuchuynhle.bsky.social counters the intuition that ostracized people share more fake news (6-7:30 PM; 6062)
Katie finds that while repetition inflates many judgments, it doesn’t create an illusion of creativity (12-1:30 PM; 5168)
And @phuchuynhle.bsky.social counters the intuition that ostracized people share more fake news (6-7:30 PM; 6062)
November 23, 2024 at 4:15 PM
If you’re at #psynom24, check out my lab’s posters today!
Katie finds that while repetition inflates many judgments, it doesn’t create an illusion of creativity (12-1:30 PM; 5168)
And @phuchuynhle.bsky.social counters the intuition that ostracized people share more fake news (6-7:30 PM; 6062)
Katie finds that while repetition inflates many judgments, it doesn’t create an illusion of creativity (12-1:30 PM; 5168)
And @phuchuynhle.bsky.social counters the intuition that ostracized people share more fake news (6-7:30 PM; 6062)
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Check out @dfreelon.bsky.social's piece in our special issue on the Psychology of Misinformation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... He theorizes that prejudice and conspiracy theory belief both share similar precursors (right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, need for closure)
The shared psychological roots of prejudice and conspiracy theory belief
The psychological literature on prejudice and conspiracy theory belief have generally remained distinct, implicitly treating the two as unrelated phen…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 21, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Check out @dfreelon.bsky.social's piece in our special issue on the Psychology of Misinformation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... He theorizes that prejudice and conspiracy theory belief both share similar precursors (right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, need for closure)
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🚨New WP🚨
Field experiments with 33 million FB users & 75k Twitter users: Ads prompting users to think about accuracy reduce misinformation sharing!
Accuracy prompts offer platforms a content-neutral approach that is scalable and preservers user autonomy osf.io/preprints/ps...
Field experiments with 33 million FB users & 75k Twitter users: Ads prompting users to think about accuracy reduce misinformation sharing!
Accuracy prompts offer platforms a content-neutral approach that is scalable and preservers user autonomy osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 7, 2024 at 4:30 PM
🚨New WP🚨
Field experiments with 33 million FB users & 75k Twitter users: Ads prompting users to think about accuracy reduce misinformation sharing!
Accuracy prompts offer platforms a content-neutral approach that is scalable and preservers user autonomy osf.io/preprints/ps...
Field experiments with 33 million FB users & 75k Twitter users: Ads prompting users to think about accuracy reduce misinformation sharing!
Accuracy prompts offer platforms a content-neutral approach that is scalable and preservers user autonomy osf.io/preprints/ps...
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A viral graph showed polarization of young men and women in whether they identify as liberal or conservative.
BUT
1) On actual issues, the differences are smaller.
AND
2) Any differences aren't unique to young people.
New from me @goodauth.bsky.social:
goodauthority.org/news/maybe-y...
BUT
1) On actual issues, the differences are smaller.
AND
2) Any differences aren't unique to young people.
New from me @goodauth.bsky.social:
goodauthority.org/news/maybe-y...
Maybe young men and women aren't so ideologically different
A viral graph suggests a big ideological gap between young men and women. Look more closely and the gap vanishes.
goodauthority.org
January 29, 2024 at 1:05 PM
A viral graph showed polarization of young men and women in whether they identify as liberal or conservative.
BUT
1) On actual issues, the differences are smaller.
AND
2) Any differences aren't unique to young people.
New from me @goodauth.bsky.social:
goodauthority.org/news/maybe-y...
BUT
1) On actual issues, the differences are smaller.
AND
2) Any differences aren't unique to young people.
New from me @goodauth.bsky.social:
goodauthority.org/news/maybe-y...