[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 …

[HTML][HTML] The psychology of fake news

G Pennycook, DG Rand - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or
highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby politics drives …

How digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting

P Törnberg - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Politics has in recent decades entered an era of intense polarization. Explanations have
implicated digital media, with the so-called echo chamber remaining a dominant causal …

Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate–social system

FC Moore, K Lacasse, KJ Mach, YA Shin, LJ Gross… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The ambition and effectiveness of climate policies will be essential in determining
greenhouse gas emissions and, as a consequence, the scale of climate change impacts …

Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

JJV Bavel, K Baicker, PS Boggio, V Capraro… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

Cognitive–motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts

JT Jost, DS Baldassarri, JN Druckman - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

A framework for understanding reasoning errors: From fake news to climate change and beyond

G Pennycook - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Humans have the capacity, but perhaps not always the willingness, for great intelligence.
From global warming to the spread of misinformation and beyond, our species is facing …

Politicization and COVID-19 vaccine resistance in the US

T Bolsen, R Palm - Progress in molecular biology and translational …, 2022 - Elsevier
Science is frequently used and distorted to advance political, economic, or cultural agendas.
The politicization of science can limit the positive impacts that scientific advances can offer …

Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19

I Freiling, NM Krause, DA Scheufele… - New media & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic went hand in hand with what some have called a “(mis) infodemic”
about the virus on social media. Drawing on partisan motivated reasoning and partisan …

Climate change disinformation and how to combat it

S Lewandowsky - Annual Review of Public Health, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Climate change presents a challenge at multiple levels: It challenges our cognitive abilities
because the effect of the accumulation of emissions is difficult to understand. Climate …