Now live: “People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines” by Sean Guo, Yiwen Zhong, and Xiaoqing Hu misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/peop...

Sharing our new paper here! People talk about how deepfakes propel us into the post truth era, and we provide some empirical evidence for this: “People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines”

Does AI improve or undercut academic scholarship? A new study finds that academics who use AI increased both the quantity & quality of their academic scholarship and it appears to reduces inequality (helping junior and non-english speaking scholars the most). arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02408

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊 Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social

Happy to share our new research on AI-generated visual misinformation - we find that specific media literacy tips about AI images improve misinformation discernment over general tips about fake news. Feedback and comments welcome! doi.org/10.1186/s412... #psychsky #phdsky

Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought. THREAD🧵

Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios. In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Short version: It didn't really work.

Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasi...

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now open-access—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

From some MIT Media Lab folks... "Results show that AI interaction significantly boosts participants’ accuracy in identifying real versus fake news content from approximately 60% to 90%." Though findings suggest AI interaction "may not produce lasting improvements that transfer to novel examples".

Excited to share my first first-author paper! We found that providing alternative explanations to misinformation improved recollection during veracity judgements, measured by the P300 ERP. Thanks to my supervisor and colleagues for their help! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #phdsky #psych

Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful

🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,537,491!

How are y’all keeping updated with the latest postdoc openings? Any good site or feed recs? #phdsky

Perhaps unsurprising given I research misinfo interventions, but I strongly disagree with this article. If you thought that small tweaks were going to fix the misinfo problem, then yes, you'll be disappointed. But, come on, we all know there is no magic bullet. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...

A typology of successful misinformation interventions: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts, led by the amazing Anastasia Kozyreva. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am advertising a postdoc position to work on a cognitive psych project on misinformation 👇 Please share! external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Excited to share our new preprint on how different properties of AI-generated images impacts misinformation belief. All feedback and comments welcome :) Shout out to @brionyswire.bsky.social for providing great comments on the manuscript! osf.io/2p64a

How many stories of “automated systems” and AI end up just being people in other countries paid peanuts to work remotely?

Dr. Kahneman’s research debunked the notion of “homo economicus,” the “economic man” who was considered a rational being who acts out of self-interest. Instead, people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often go against their own best interest. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

where are the other Phd students here on #bluesky? #phdsky #academia ? 😭 I can't be going through this alone

In case you missed it last week, here's a recording of my talk "Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it?" See what we found in our giant collaborative megastudy testing 9 different online misinformation interventions! shorensteincenter.org/new-event/mi...

This was shared quite a bit as a preprint, and now it's published! (and #OA) “What will you do after?”: Lessons from Academia and the World Beyond I am glad QJEP appreciated the benefit of publishing this at a psych society journal (rather than an HE one) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...

At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, the truth is that errors in science are largely brought to light by unpaid volunteers. I wrote about a new program that wants to shake up those incentives and pay sleuths cold, hard cash for finding mistakes. www.chronicle.com/article/want...

Apologies for the malfunction. I'm now able to handle abstract-length titles. Please refrain from using abstract-length titles though.

Always assumed that younger generations get better with tech, and never thought we would be hearing about students getting worse at basic computer skills like where a file is stored (!) Wonder how this affects future media and misinfo consumption? www.theverge.com/22684730/stu... #psychology

A potential downside of addressing misinformation: "efforts like warning about the threat of misinformation can prime general distrust in authentic news, hinting toward a deception bias in the context of fear of misinformation being salient." policysky sociology cogsci polisky 🛟medsky

In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. The people who share the most are usually the most extreme—hardcore users, fans, and partisans! www.nngroup.com/articles/par...

I always work this paper into my undergrad classes. They appreciate it, acknowledge that pattern in their behavior, then change their behavior :) psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-...

Super realistic AI lego sets! (Apart from the text)

Predictions of eye movements when viewing images should work well for all. Do they? We studied this with gaze data from >2,000 participants collected in the Nemo museum Amsterdam! Out in Communications Psych t.ly/Y1-Ty tldr: models do well, especially if you are a psychology student More:

“So the most important thing that I say in this short book is this: Disinformation is not an accident. It's a lie”, says Lee McIntyre in a great conversation on misinformation and disinformation at the MIT museum.

To any misinformation researchers out there: do you read or rely on any cog sci or neuro papers about learning and memory? For example, how relevant is the classic AB-AC memory updating paradigm to correcting misinformation?

Happy to see this out: New open access article in Current Opinion in Psychology, authored by @lewan.bsky.social, myself, John Cook of @skepticalscience.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and Jon Roozenbeek. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi #PsychSciSky! Does anyone have any advice on attending a conference that doesn't really match your research topics? Eg. Given I'm interested in cognitive mechanisms of memory and neuroimaging, would there be much value in attending a social psych conference?

Hello #HiSciSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence ! I’m Sean, a PhD candidate currently studying how misinformation impacts our memory and beliefs using #EEG