The Psychology of Fake News

Timing matters when correcting fake news

(2021) Nadia M. Brashier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment

(2021) Mohsen Mosleh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter

(2021) Mohsen Mosleh et al.   Nature Communications

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

(2021) Gordon Pennycook et al.   NATURE

The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings

(2020) Gordon Pennycook et al.   MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election

(2020) Andrew M. Guess et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

(2020) Andrew M. Guess et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference

(2020) Ben M Tappin et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Misinformed and unaware? Metacognition and the influence of inaccurate information.

(2020) Nikita A. Salovich et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION

The evidence for motivated reasoning in climate change preference formation

(2019) James N. Druckman et al.   Nature Climate Change

Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook

(2019) Andrew Guess et al.   Science Advances

Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election

(2019) Nir Grinberg et al.   SCIENCE

Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality

(2019) Gordon Pennycook et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Accelerating dynamics of collective attention

(2019) Philipp Lorenz-Spreen et al.   Nature Communications

Combating Fake News on Social Media with Source Ratings: The Effects of User and Expert Reputation Ratings

(2019) Antino Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Systematic Literature Review on the Spread of Health-related Misinformation on Social Media

(2019) Yuxi Wang et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

The science of fake news

(2018) David M. J. Lazer et al.   SCIENCE

The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief

(2018) Jay J. Van Bavel et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The role of familiarity in correcting inaccurate information.

(2017) Briony Swire et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION

A neural model of valuation and information virality

(2017) Christin Scholz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon

(2017) Briony Swire et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence

(2017) John Cook et al.   PLoS One

On Known Unknowns: Fluency and the Neural Mechanisms of Illusory Truth

(2016) Wei-Chun Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

What makes us think? A three-stage dual-process model of analytic engagement

(2015) Gordon Pennycook et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks

(2012) Dan M. Kahan et al.   Nature Climate Change

Intuition, reason, and metacognition

(2011) Valerie A. Thompson et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY