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Author Correction: Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues
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Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation
The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation f...
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Open AccessA synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions1, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process2. In April 2020, an influential paper3 proposed 19 policy recommendations (‘claims’) detailing ho...
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Author Correction: Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents
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Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents
The spread of misinformation online is a global problem that requires global solutions. To that end, we conducted an experiment in 16 countries across 6 continents (N = 34,286; 676,605 observations) to investigat...
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Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues
It is widely assumed that party identification and loyalty can distort partisans’ information processing, diminishing their receptivity to counter-partisan arguments and evidence. Here we empirically evaluate ...
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Open AccessUnselfish traits and social decision-making patterns characterize six populations of real-world extraordinary altruists
Acts of extraordinary, costly altruism, in which significant risks or costs are assumed to benefit strangers, have long represented a motivational puzzle. But the features that consistently distinguish individ...
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Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes
There is widespread concern that rising affective polarization—particularly dislike for outpartisans—exacerbates Americans’ anti-democratic attitudes. Accordingly, scholars and practitioners alike have investe...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Measuring exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter
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Open AccessMeasuring exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter
Misinformation can come directly from public figures and organizations (referred to here as “elites”). Here, we develop a tool for measuring Twitter users’ exposure to misinformation from elites based on the p...
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Open AccessAccuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation
Interventions that shift users attention toward the concept of accuracy represent a promising approach for reducing misinformation sharing online. We assess the replicability and generalizability of this accur...
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Turking in the time of COVID
On March 16, 2020, the US Government introduced strict social distancing protocols for the United States in an effort to stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. This had an immediate major effect on the job ...
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Open AccessDon’t get it or don’t spread it: comparing self-interested versus prosocial motivations for COVID-19 prevention behaviors
COVID-19 prevention behaviors may be seen as self-interested or prosocial. Using American samples from MTurk and Prolific (total n = 6850), we investigated which framing is more effective—and motivation is strong...
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Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online
In recent years, there has been a great deal of concern about the proliferation of false and misleading news on social media1–4. Academics and practitioners alike have asked why people share such misinformation, ...
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Open AccessCognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter
We investigate the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection and behavior on the social media platform Twitter, using a convenience sample of N = 1,901 individuals from Prolific. We find...
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Open AccessReliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news
What is the role of emotion in susceptibility to believing fake news? Prior work on the psychology of misinformation has focused primarily on the extent to which reason and deliberation hinder versus help the ...
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Open AccessGlobalization and the rise and fall of cognitive control
The scale of human interaction is larger than ever before—people regularly interact with and learn from others around the world, and everyone impacts the global environment. We develop an evolutionary game the...
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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social a...
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Repetition increases perceived truth equally for plausible and implausible statements
Repetition increases the likelihood that a statement will be judged as true. This illusory truth effect is well established; however, it has been argued that repetition will not affect belief in unambiguous st...
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Information gerrymandering and undemocratic decisions
People must integrate disparate sources of information when making decisions, especially in social contexts. But information does not always flow freely. It can be constrained by social networks1–3 and distorted ...
