Moral outrage shapes fundamental aspects of social life and is now widespread in online
social networks. Here, we show how social learning processes amplify online moral outrage …

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 …

Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is
unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs …

The Internet has evolved into a ubiquitous and indispensable digital environment in which
people communicate, seek information, and make decisions. Despite offering various …

Echo chambers and opinion polarization recently quantified in several sociopolitical
contexts and across different social media raise concerns on their potential impact on the …

Highlights•Affective polarization (political animosity) is rising in America and cannot be fully
explained by ideological polarization.•People's misperceptions of the ideological divide …

The spread of misinformation, including “fake news,” propaganda, and conspiracy theories,
represents a serious threat to society, as it has the potential to alter beliefs, behavior, and …

The social and behavioral sciences have been increasingly using automated text analysis to
measure psychological constructs in text. We explore whether GPT, the large-language …

People spend considerable time on digital media, and are thus often exposed to
expressions of emotion by other people. This exposure can lead their own emotion …

With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for
moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence …