[HTML][HTML] Misinformation: susceptibility, spread, and interventions to immunize the public

S Van Der Linden - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The spread of misinformation poses a considerable threat to public health and the
successful management of a global pandemic. For example, studies find that exposure to …

Psychological inoculation against misinformation: Current evidence and future directions

CS Traberg, J Roozenbeek… - The ANNALS of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Much like a viral contagion, misinformation can spread rapidly from one individual to
another. Inoculation theory offers a logical basis for developing a psychological “vaccine” …

Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media

J Roozenbeek, S Van Der Linden, B Goldberg… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Online misinformation continues to have adverse consequences for society. Inoculation
theory has been put forward as a way to reduce susceptibility to misinformation by informing …

Strategies that promote equity in COVID-19 vaccine uptake for black communities: a review

D Dada, JN Djiometio, SAM McFadden, J Demeke… - Journal of urban …, 2022 - Springer
Black communities have had a high burden of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and death,
yet rates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Blacks lag behind other demographic groups …

Inoculation theory in the post‐truth era: Extant findings and new frontiers for contested science, misinformation, and conspiracy theories

J Compton, S van der Linden, J Cook… - Social and Personality …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although there has been unprecedented attention to inoculation theory in recent years, the
potential of this research has yet to be reached. Inoculation theory explains how immunity to …

A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19

K Ruggeri, F Stock, SA Haslam, V Capraro, P Boggio… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly
part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations …

[HTML][HTML] Countering misinformation

J Roozenbeek, E Culloty, J Suiter - European Psychologist, 2023 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Developing effective interventions to counter misinformation is an urgent goal, but it also
presents conceptual, empirical, and practical difficulties, compounded by the fact that …

Public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: Lessons from communication science

X Nan, IA Iles, B Yang, Z Ma - Health communication, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that effective public health messaging is an
indispensable component of a robust pandemic response system. In this article, we review …

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 …

Visual mis-and disinformation, social media, and democracy

V Dan, B Paris, J Donovan… - Journalism & Mass …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The spread of mis-and disinformation is an increasing concern for democratic societies
around the globe (Lazer et al., 2019). In modern high-choice media environments, exposure …