[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 …

Human cooperation and the crises of climate change, COVID-19, and misinformation

PAM Van Lange, DG Rand - Annual Review of Psychology, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Contemporary society is facing many social dilemmas—including climate change, COVID-
19, and misinformation—characterized by a conflict between short-term self-interest and …

Partisan polarization is the primary psychological motivation behind political fake news sharing on Twitter

M Osmundsen, A Bor, PB Vahlstrup… - American political …, 2021‏ - cambridge.org
The rise of “fake news” is a major concern in contemporary Western democracies. Yet,
research on the psychological motivations behind the spread of political fake news on social …

The effects of repetition frequency on the illusory truth effect

A Hassan, SJ Barber - Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2021‏ - Springer
Repeated information is often perceived as more truthful than new information. This finding
is known as the illusory truth effect, and it is typically thought to occur because repetition …

[HTML][HTML] Why do people spread false information online? The effects of message and viewer characteristics on self-reported likelihood of sharing social media …

T Buchanan - Plos one, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
Individuals who encounter false information on social media may actively spread it further,
by sharing or otherwise engaging with it. Much of the spread of disinformation can thus be …

Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents

AA Arechar, J Allen, AJ Berinsky, R Cole… - Nature Human …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The spread of misinformation online is a global problem that requires global solutions. To
that end, we conducted an experiment in 16 countries across 6 continents (N= 34,286; …

Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news

C Martel, G Pennycook, DG Rand - Cognitive research: principles and …, 2020‏ - Springer
What is the role of emotion in susceptibility to believing fake news? Prior work on the
psychology of misinformation has focused primarily on the extent to which reason and …

Supersharers of fake news on Twitter

S Baribi-Bartov, B Swire-Thompson, N Grinberg - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Governments may have the capacity to flood social media with fake news, but little is known
about the use of flooding by ordinary voters. In this work, we identify 2107 registered US …

[HTML][HTML] Fake news and Covid-19 in Italy: results of a quantitative observational study

A Moscadelli, G Albora, MA Biamonte… - International journal of …, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
During the Covid-19 pandemic, risk communication has often been ineffective, and from this
perspective “fake news” has found fertile ground, both as a cause and a consequence of it …

[كتاب][B] Foolproof: Why misinformation infects our minds and how to build immunity

S Van der Linden - 2023‏ - books.google.com
Winner of the SPSP Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science• Winner
of the 2024 APA William James Book Award• Winner of the 2024 Harvard Goldsmith Book …