[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 …

Bad beliefs: Why they happen to good people

N Levy - 2021‏ - library.oapen.org
Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

Updating the identity-based model of belief: From false belief to the spread of misinformation

JJ Van Bavel, S Rathje, M Vlasceanu… - Current Opinion in …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The spread of misinformation threatens democratic societies, hampering informed decision-
making. Partisan identity biases perceptions of reality, promoting false beliefs. The Identity …

No association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sample

MN Stagnaro, BM Tappin, DG Rand - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023‏ - pnas.org
The highly influential theory of “Motivated System 2 Reasoning” argues that analytical,
deliberative (“System 2”) reasoning is hijacked by identity when considering ideologically …

Motivated reasoning about climate change and the influence of Numeracy, Need for Cognition, and the Dark Factor of Personality

F Hutmacher, R Reichardt, M Appel - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Human information processing is not always rational but influenced by prior attitudes, a
phenomenon commonly known as motivated reasoning. We conducted two studies (N 1 …

[HTML][HTML] A preregistered replication of motivated numeracy

E Persson, D Andersson, L Koppel, D Västfjäll… - Cognition, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Motivated numeracy refers to the idea that people with high reasoning capacity will use that
capacity selectively to process information in a manner that protects their own valued beliefs …

Exploring the roles of analytic cognitive style, climate science literacy, illusion of knowledge, and political orientation in climate change skepticism

B Trémolière, H Djeriouat - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The issue of climate change has become central in recent years as alarming data
accumulate. It nevertheless has its critics, consisting of people denying climate change or …

The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

F Hutmacher, R Reichardt… - Public Understanding of …, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The successful management of the COVID-19 pandemic depends on individuals accepting
the current state of research and adhering to the preventive behaviors that follow from it …

Beyond explaining single item recommendations

N Tintarev, J Masthoff - Recommender Systems Handbook, 2012‏ - Springer
This chapter gives an overview of the area of explanations in recommender systems. We
approach the literature from the angle of evaluation: that is, we are interested in what makes …

The more sophisticated, the more biased? Testing a new measure of political sophistication on biased information Processing

C Valli, B Eugster, D Arlt - International Journal of Public Opinion …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
According to literature, biased information processing increases with political sophistication.
The logic behind this relationship is that political sophisticates possess greater cognitive …