Nudging Social Media toward Accuracy

Some people just want to watch the world burn: the prevalence, psychology and politics of the ‘Need for Chaos’

(2021) Kevin Arceneaux et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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 Psychology of Fake News

(2021) Gordon Pennycook et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Lack of partisan bias in the identification of fake (versus real) news

(2021) Gordon Pennycook et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)

(2021) Jon Roozenbeek et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

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

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

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

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

Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

(2017) William J. Brady et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA