A key debate in the psychology of ideology is whether leftists and rightists are
psychologically similar or different. A long-standing view holds that left-wing and right-wing …

Misinformation undermines trust in the integrity of democratic elections, the safety of
vaccines, and the authenticity of footage from war zones. Social scientists have proposed …

Open Science initiatives such as preregistration, publicly available procedures and data,
and power analyses have rightly been lauded for increasing the reliability of findings …

False political information–misinformation or disinformation—is widely spread on social
media. Individual social media users play a large part in this. However, only a minority …

Ubiquitous misinformation on social media threatens the health and well-being of young
people. We review research on susceptibility to misinformation, why it spreads, and how …

Trust in nonpartisan news is essential to civil society—but is declining in the United States.
However, language that demonstrates active engagement with opposing views may build …

To what extent can the harms of misinformation be mitigated by relying on nudges? Prior
research has demonstrated that non-intrusive 'accuracy nudges' can reduce the sharing of …

There is considerable debate over whether and how social media contributes to
polarization. In a correlational study (n1= 1,447) and two digital field experiments (n2= 494 …

One of the most common statistical analyses in experimental psychology concerns the
comparison of two means using the frequentist t test. However, frequentist t tests do not …

Misinformation research is littered with conflicting findings and scholarly debates: For
example, do accuracy prompts work equally well for liberals and conservatives? Do certain …