Great coverage of our new inoculation against fake news study in @natureportfolio.nature.com led by the brill @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social for @cnn.com

"This psychological booster could help people resist misinformation"

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@jonsimons.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social

New meta-analysis shows media literacy & psychological inoculation interventions signifcantly & substantially improve (a) misinformation resilience (d = 0.60), (b) misinformation discernment (d = 0.76) and decrease sharing (d = 1.04).

Great news for science!

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If universities want to retain female faculty they need to deal with the people who create hostile workplaces.

That means actually dealing with sexual harassers, assholes, bullies, and every else who scores high on the dark triad.

If not, you will lose your best people over and over again.

There are lots of people aspiring to riches, success, and happiness & gurus who promise to take them there

But “manifestors” are not more likely to be rich or successful. Success takes more than simply vibrating ones desires to the universe www.beautifulminds-newsletter.com/p/are-manife...

Our new paper examines how parasocial contact with transgender influencers on TikTok can reduce transgender conspiracy theory beliefs.

Published in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology as part of a special issue on intergroup contact.

Read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I think our findings here are interesting and useful. In layman's terms, (unsurprisingly) people who believe in vaccine conspiracy theories are less likely to get vaccinated. But inducing them to think about their relationships with others made them much more likely to get vaccinated.

Conspiratorial thinking is not a left-right thing. Anyone can go down these rabbit holes under the right conditions.

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