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David G. Rand
Behavioral Sciences
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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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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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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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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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Non-naïvety may reduce the effect of intuition manipulations
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Evolution: The value of information
Modelling and experiments have shown that strategic information can undermine ‘altruistic’ cooperation. Using a model that varies the distribution of costs for finding out, it is now shown that information can...
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Opposing Oxytocin Effects on Intergroup Cooperative Behavior in Intuitive and Reflective Minds
People often favor ingroup over outgroup members when choosing to cooperate. Such ingroup-favored cooperation is promoted by oxytocin—a neuropeptide shown to facilitate social cognition and that has emerged as...
