Now live: “Do language models favor their home countries? Asymmetric propagation of positive misinformation and foreign interference audits” by Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Tracy Weener, Yung-Chun Chen, Sean Noh, Mingyue Zha, Hsuan Lo misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/do-l...

super cool work.

great title link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now live: “New sources of inaccuracy? A conceptual framework for studying AI hallucinations” Anqi Shao misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/new-...

hey I wrote a book... coming to you at some point in the future ‪from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬

✨The Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award 🏅 Awardee: Nicolai Berk (U Zurich) 📄 The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨The Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award Runner-up article: Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity By Jan G. Voelkel et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Want to get a sense of my book with @ekvraga.bsky.social but not ready to commit? @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has released Chapter One free and downloadable for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60489/c...

This is a nice write-up of our recent paper by PsyPost, with clear info about limitations and small effect sizes. I would like to clarify that I am not in fact the person in the photo, though doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

Normalizing lies...👇 Repeated exposure effect on moral condemnation of fake news www.nature.com/articles/s41... @dgrand.bsky.social "...frequently seen headlines receive lower moral condemnation" "Without this condemnation, the publication & spreading of online misinformation may be more common."

New in TiCS w @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model Time for new approaches: o True/False → Content that misleads o Belief → Behavior o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings

Love that thing where you use Google Scholar too much so get locked out because it thinks you're sending automated queries.

How effective are user corrections on social media, and does adding a link to a fact check improve effectiveness? In piece led by @sachaltay.bsky.social we find corrections have small effects, adding a fact-check unlikely to make them more effective misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-... 1/6

Now live: “The small effects of short user corrections on misinformation in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom” by Sacha Altay, Simge Andı, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, and Richard Fletcher misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-...

The truth sandwich is baloney! New paper out. We show that the “truth sandwich” correction format (in which false information is bookended by factual information) does not enhance corrections. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data. The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details! Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It seems increasingly likely that we will be hiring (two positions — Political Behavior, broadly defined, and American Institutions!) at UIUC this year. I plan to add this link to all recruitment materials. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/d...

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

Now out @hcr-journal.bsky.social: we find evidence of overconfidence, but decomposition analyses show assoc. b/w OC & behavioral correlates are accounted for by deficits in actual discernment ability rather than lack of metacognitive insight academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

Identifying images as “AI-generated” has little impact on an individual’s stated likelihood of engaging with them, according to a survey, but labeling images as “False,” “Manipulated,” or “Artificial” does reduce engagement intentions. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

🚨 Call for Abstracts! I'm excited to announce the 2nd workshop on Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies @ MIT on Dec 5-6 Keynotes from @bgoldberg.bsky.social & @adamberinsky.bsky.social 🗓️ Deadline to submit: July 14, 2025 🔗 sites.google.com/view/polariz...

Updated "Exposure to low-credibility online health content...", now w YouTube data: Older adults consume less YT, but a higher proportion is low-cred. Dubious political news ex is linked w low-cred health ex.. suggests shared consumption profile spans topics + platforms osf.io/preprints/os...

How We Can All Respond to Misinformation academic.oup.com/book/60489 by @leticiabode.bsky.social @ekvraga.bsky.social Needed: "...correcting publicly to build social norms around responding to misinformation." Platforms must "promote corrections & take action against toxic behaviors."

More and more, people rely on quantitative forecasts to understand society and politics. Barnfield et al. show that 2022 French election forecasts significantly shaped public expectations. Read now in POQ: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

new working paper (reposted with fixed/public link): osf.io/gbkn5

Out now at @poqjournal.bsky.social! Do election forecasts set realistic election expectations? doi.org/10.1093/poq/... 🧵 (w/ @mbarnfield.bsky.social, @florianstoeckel.bsky.social, @benlyons.bsky.social, @vittoriomerola.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social and other awesome BlueSky-less colleagues)

Our paper "Wishful Thinking in Response to Events" is now out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! w/ @polpsychjoe.bsky.social @florianstoeckel.bsky.social @vittoriomerola.bsky.social @benlyons.bsky.social @jasonreifler.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now live: “Feedback and education improve human detection of image manipulation on social media” by Adnan Hoq, Matthew J. Facciani, and Tim Weninger @matthewfacciani misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/feed...

New working paper with two great coauthors!

this is an incredible resource!

We derive the data from a panel of over 1.5M Twitter users matched against their US registration records. 📰 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.09035 🧑‍💻 Github (with data): github.com/LazerLab/Dom... 🖥️ Interactive app: domaindemoexplorer.streamlit.app 📻 Podcast: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/e27... 2/3

Over the past two decades, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly use features linked to clickbait. This shift is widespread across outlets of all political leanings and journalistic quality. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join @smotus.bsky.social , @aesokhey.bsky.social, @jenvictor.bsky.social, and me for a celebration of Dr. Scott McClurg's impact on the field and mentorship. Friday, April 4, 11:40-1:10, @mpsa.bsky.social.

📄NEW PAPER📄 Ever wondered content people actually pay *attention* to online? Our new research reveals that you likely pay attention to far more varied political content than your likes and shares suggest

The advice at the end is very similar to where I've landed in my editing/reviewing roles

(5) Turning to our competing hypotheses, we find that it is 20 times more likely that cognitive reflection is associated with less (!) politically motivated reasoning – contrary to the influential hypothesis from political science. For inhibitory control, our results are less conclusive.

More on the NIH termination of vaccine hesitancy studies.

Starting next week, we are hosting a fortnightly seminar series! We have an exciting programme of six great speakers presenting new work on a diverse range of topics. More details and links to register for individual sessions here: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...

Fifth, the proportion of true news in the sets of headlines presented to participants had no clear effect on discernment or skepticism bias.

This data is funny because it suggests it’s just the same generation of people buying houses over and over again.

Out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

It's about that time

Excited to read Anti-scientific Americans by @mattmotta.bsky.social !

New wp: Overconfidence in ability to discern cancer misinformation: A conceptual replication and extension osf.io/cn7m8_v1 Somewhat less overconfidence on this topic; still linked with exposure + misperceptions. But these associations are driven by poor ability rather than excess confidence

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 A new paper from the Communication Neuroscience Lab explores what motivates people to share high-quality news #commsky @pnas.org

"The effect of partisan bias of the news sources in our study was both a stronger influence on concept geometries than racial identity and partially mediated the racial group effects in concept geometries."

People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions. See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al: —PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2... —Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

My department at the University of Utah is hiring a teaching position (3/3 load; no research expectations) in strategic communication. Great department and SLC is an underrated place to live. I'm on the search committee and am happy to answer questions. Info here: careers.icahdq.org/jobs/view/as...

When it comes to statistical power, how is Communication Science doing? Sun, Shen, Pan, and Quan’s article: “Toward a More Powerful Experimental Communication Science: An Assessment of Two Decades’ Research (2001–2023)” gives an answer. In short, not so good: doi.org/10.1177/0093...