Teaching lateral reading: interventions to help people read like fact checkers

S McGrew - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
People need more support learning to evaluate the credibility of online information. This
article reviews recent research on interventions designed to teach lateral reading, the …

[HTML][HTML] Trust but verify? Examining the role of trust in institutions in the spread of unverified information on social media

W Van Zoonen, V Luoma-aho, M Lievonen - Computers in Human Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate the association between trust in institutions and the reasons
for sharing unverified information on social media. Specifically, this study explores the role of …

From news disengagement to fake news engagement: Examining the role of news-finds-me perceptions in vulnerability to fake news through third-person perception

Y Tian, L Willnat - Computers in Human Behavior, 2025 - Elsevier
Despite the wealth of literature vested in the association between social media use and
vulnerability to fake news, it remains underexplored how and what kinds of social media …

Scaffolding Source Evaluation During Document-Based Scientific Inquiry: The Contributions of Document Mapping and Shared Criteria Scaffolds

S Barzilai, D Tal-Savir, F Abed, S Mor-Hagani… - Computers in Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
In times of widespread misinformation, students must learn to evaluate source
trustworthiness so that they can determine the reliability of scientific information. The aim of …

Talking about credibility, students, and facilitation: Opportunities to learn about teaching online evaluations in rehearsal debriefs

S McGrew - Teaching and Teacher Education, 2025 - Elsevier
Teachers need opportunities to learn to teach online evaluations as pressure grows on
schools to teach these skills. Debriefs after teachers rehearse facilitating discussions about …

The advantage of videos over text to boost adolescents' lateral reading in a digital workshop

CA Werner Axelsson, T Nygren - Behaviour & Information …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Today, fostering media and information literacy (MIL) among citizens is essential for
preserving democracy. The effectiveness of scalable interventions, particularly those …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to combat misinformation: Enduring effects of a 15-minute online intervention on critical-thinking adolescents

G Orosz, L Faragó, B Paskuj, P Krekó - Computers in Human Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
How is it possible to socialize adolescents to become more vigilant in spotting fake news? In
the present preregistered, randomized controlled trial (N= 1,476), we aimed to implement a …

[HTML][HTML] Fake video detection among secondary school students: The impact of sociocultural, media literacy and media use factors

M Turós, AZ Kenyeres, Z Szűts - Telematics and Informatics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
The harmful political, economic and health effects of fake news on social media are well
known. The present study examines the impact of two socio-cultural variables (political …

Pre-service teachers evaluating online texts about learning styles: there is room for improvement in justifying the credibility

P Kulju, EK Hämäläinen, M Mäkinen… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Teachers' abilities to critically evaluate the credibility of online information are fundamental
when they educate critical online readers. This study examined pre-service teachers' …

Lateral Reading Against Misinformation: The Cognitive Processing Level Mediates the Intervention Effect on the News Credibility Assessment Performance

B Artmann, C Scheibenzuber, M Fendt… - European Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Approaching the problem of fake news with media literacy and fake news training, lateral
reading training improves the discernment between truthful and fake news. How this …