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.

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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.

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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!

Thanks for the recommendations! The postdoc feed does look like a great source.

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...

Cool research! I worked in Nicholas’ lab when I was in college, surprised and happy to see his name pop up here!