[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 …

The conspiratorial mind: A meta-analytic review of motivational and personological correlates.

SM Bowes, TH Costello, A Tasimi - Psychological Bulletin, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
A tidal wave of research has tried to uncover the motivational and personological correlates
of conspiratorial ideation, often studying these two classes of correlates in parallel. Here, we …

Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media

J Roozenbeek, S Van Der Linden, B Goldberg… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Online misinformation continues to have adverse consequences for society. Inoculation
theory has been put forward as a way to reduce susceptibility to misinformation by informing …

Modeling compliance with COVID-19 prevention guidelines: The critical role of trust in science

N Plohl, B Musil - Psychology, health & medicine, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest health crises of our time. In response to this
global problem, various institutions around the world had soon issued evidence-based …

Toward parsimony in bias research: A proposed common framework of belief-consistent information processing for a set of biases

A Oeberst, R Imhoff - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
One of the essential insights from psychological research is that people's information
processing is often biased. By now, a number of different biases have been identified and …

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 …

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 …

Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning

G Pennycook, DG Rand - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Why do people believe blatantly inaccurate news headlines (“fake news”)? Do we use our
reasoning abilities to convince ourselves that statements that align with our ideology are …

[图书][B] Not born yesterday: The science of who we trust and what we believe

H Mercier - 2020 - degruyter.com
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Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the “post-truth” era

S Lewandowsky, UKH Ecker, J Cook - … of applied research in memory and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The terms “post-truth” and “fake news” have become increasingly prevalent in public
discourse over the last year. This article explores the growing abundance of misinformation …