Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

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 …

An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long
subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and …

Pluralistic ignorance—a shared misperception of how others think or behave—poses a
challenge to collective action on problems like climate change. Using a representative …

The public is convinced that beliefs in conspiracy theories are increasing, and many
scholars, journalists, and policymakers agree. Given the associations between conspiracy …

Nearly five billion people around the world now use social media, and this number
continues to grow. One of the primary goals of social media platforms is to capture and …

Interventions that shift users attention toward the concept of accuracy represent a promising
approach for reducing misinformation sharing online. We assess the replicability and …

Surveillance capitalism is what happened when US democracy stood down. Two decades
later, it fails any reasonable test of responsible global stewardship of digital information and …

Societal transformations are necessary to address critical global challenges, such as
mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and reaching UN sustainable development …