The adults have left the building and the outcome is chaos and pain....

Skewed polls like this artificially and harmfully increase distrust in government and public institutions by using 2 to 1 weights: "it has been broken". This type of manipulation, often done to create click-bait headlines, has become strikingly common at NYTimes #keepmoneyoutofnews #nytimes #polling

Universal Impact

The effective interventions worked across the board—whether you’re young or old, liberal or conservative. The decision-making processes might vary, but the effects hold fairly steady.

Decisions Under the Hood

Every decision to share (or not) involves a mental tug-of-war. Drift diffusion modeling revealed that interventions like warning labels change the starting point of this tug. Media literacy tips increase the information we gather before a sharing decision (boundary).

Not All Interventions Are Equal

Want to reduce false news sharing? Warning labels and media literacy training are your best bets. Accuracy prompts? Less effective. Social norms? They help, but not as much as you’d think.

Why Do We Share False News?

Sharing false news isn’t just impulsive; it’s shaped by our biases and habits. Our new framework, the Dynamic Semi-Integrative Approach (DSIA), tested interventions to tackle this problem—and the results are eye-opening

#AcademicSky #socialpsyc #polisky #cogsci 🧪

We used NLP to uncover a troubling trend: when political leaders confidently spread falsehoods, it’s not just noise—it directly predicts an uptick in political violence. Our data foreshadow Trump's second term resulting in a sharp rise in violence 🧪 #psychology #socialpsyc

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