Thanks to brilliant colleagues @lucy-h-butler.bsky.social‬ and @davidnrapp.bsky.social (welcome to Bluesky!) and to @apajournals.bsky.social and Journal of Educational Psychology for selecting our paper as an Editor’s Choice article!

Our findings suggest that corrections can be powerfully effective against misinformation *regardless of format*, and advocacy for the truth sandwich above other simpler formats is unwarranted.

In two pre-registered experiments (hypothesizing nulls), we found that under no circumstances was the truth sandwich format more effective, not even after a 2-week delay or in subgroups with greater misinformation belief.

Originally mentioned on CNN, the truth sandwich is often said to be superior to other correction formats. There is no empirical evidence to support this. The best part about being a scientist is you can rigorously test these claims.

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...

FYI @profsanderlinden.bsky.social‬ @leticiabode.bsky.social‬ @ekvraga.bsky.social‬ @jayvanbavel.bsky.social‬ ‪@lewan.bsky.social ‬@lkfazio.bsky.social‬ @davidlazer.bsky.social‬ @ethanvporter.bsky.social‬ @thomasjwood.bsky.social‬

Corrections *are* effective and how we measure their impact matters

Very excited to see this out today - led by the fabulous @emilyspearing.bsky.social

@lewan.bsky.social @brionyswire.bsky.social @tobyprike.bsky.social

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So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Renée DiResta talking on "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality" at the Harvard / Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series at 11.30am EST today. www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/renee-...

Terminating the grants to study misinformation is “an overt act of censoring and preventing accountability,” says Stephen Lewandowsky, a misinformation researcher at the University of Bristol. “Who other than a liar would cancel misinformation research?”
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Skyler Johnson talking on "Combating cancer misinformation: impacts, challenges and opportunities" at the Harvard / Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series at 3pm EST today! shorensteincenter.org/new-event/co...

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...

For data scientists and data engineers interested in democracy, please see positions posted at Northeastern for positions at the Internet Democracy Initiative (please reshare): northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Hi all, I'm hiring a new research assistant, please share with anyone who might be interested - thanks!
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Catch me next Wed March 6th at the Harvard/Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series (live & on zoom) for the public reveal of the results from our large collaborative megastudy testing nine misinformation interventions @dgrand.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social

shorensteincenter.org/new-event/mi...

Check out the special issue on Psych of Misinformation that you're in! Most of the articles are published now and they're both short and for a broad audience.

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/curr...

🚨New paper🚨 out in the International Journal of Press/Politics w/ Assaf Shamir and @jenny-oser.bsky.social 🎉

Here's what we learned from studying the composition of political content available to 600k+ registered U.S. voters on Twitter during the 2020 election.

doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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New: Fact-check of 2022 AZ fraud claims reduces false beliefs but no effect on general fraud/election beliefs sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/files/... (with Carey, Fogarty, Reifler, and great D students)

Raises questions about effectiveness of case-by-case corrections at countering broader false claims

just SEVEN DAYS LEFT to apply to work as a postdoc with us on fmri decoding, consciousness, higher order theories, and more! big collaboration with @jorge-morales.bsky.social & Rachel Denison among others. please apply!
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