Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy-nudge intervention

G Pennycook, J McPhetres, Y Zhang… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Across two studies with more than 1,700 US adults recruited online, we present evidence
that people share false claims about COVID-19 partly because they simply fail to think …

How accurate are accuracy-nudge interventions? A preregistered direct replication of Pennycook et al.(2020)

J Roozenbeek, ALJ Freeman… - Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
As part of the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE)
program, the present study consisted of a two-stage replication test of a central finding by …

Judgment and decision making

B Fischhoff, SB Broomell - Annual review of psychology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The science of judgment and decision making involves three interrelated forms of research:
analysis of the decisions people face, description of their natural responses, and …

A clinical framework to facilitate selection of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer for active surveillance or less aggressive initial surgical management

RM Tuttle, L Zhang, A Shaha - Expert review of endocrinology & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: In the past, total thyroidectomy was usually recommended as the initial
therapeutic approach in all but the lowest risk differentiated thyroid cancers. Today, many …

Who is susceptible to online health misinformation? A test of four psychosocial hypotheses.

LD Scherer, J McPhetres, G Pennycook… - Health …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Health misinformation on social media threatens public health. One question that
could lend insight into how and through whom misinformation spreads is whether certain …

[HTML][HTML] Perceived patient-provider communication quality and sociodemographic factors associated with watching health-related videos on YouTube: a cross …

A Langford, S Loeb - Journal of medical Internet research, 2019 - jmir.org
Background Approximately 73% of US adults use YouTube, making it the most popular
social media platform. Misinformation on social media is a growing concern; recent studies …

Access is necessary but not sufficient: factors influencing delay and avoidance of health care services

KT Smith, D Monti, N Mir, E Peters… - MDM policy & …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Despite recently expanded access to health insurance, consumers still face
barriers to using their coverage to obtain needed health care. Objective: To examine the …

Cancer screening in the elderly: a review of breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer screening

AA Kotwal, MA Schonberg - The Cancer Journal, 2017 - journals.lww.com
There are relatively limited data on outcomes of screening older adults for cancer; therefore,
the decision to screen older adults requires balancing the potential harms of screening and …

Eliciting medical maximizing-minimizing preferences with a single question: development and validation of the MM1

LD Scherer, BJ Zikmund-Fisher - Medical Decision Making, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The 10-item validated Medical Maximizer-Minimizer Scale (MMS-10) assesses patients'
preferences for aggressive v. more passive approaches to health care. However, because …

Exploration of primary care clinician attitudes and cognitive characteristics associated with prescribing antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria

JD Baghdadi, D Korenstein, L Pineles… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Antibiotic treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria is not recommended in
guidelines but is a major driver of inappropriate antibiotic use. Objective To evaluate …