A set if large scale-experiments in the UK, US & Poland where people chatted with LLMs about political topics found AI is very good at persuasion, primarily by providing lots of fact-based claims

Plus, AI is getting more persuasive as models grow bigger & persuasion effects lasted over a month.

🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate

🚨New WP🚨
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇

🚨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...

What is honesty and truth?

New work from Lasser, Aroyehun, Carrella, @almogsi.bsky.social Garcia & Lewandowsky
finds that the dissemination of misinformation by US politicians (Republicans) is connected to an alternative understanding of honesty and truth nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Now out in Perspectives on Psychological Science 🚨

People engage with divisive and negative content online. But, does this mean that people *like* divisive content? No! We find that people across the political spectrum do not want divisive content to spread.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'll be recruiting a PhD student in the next cycle - please pass this along to anyone who might interested in joining my lab at Cornell! Open-ended, but interest in topics relating to intuition/reason, metacognition, overconfidence, misinformation, or beliefs is a bonus!