In recent years, interest in the psychology of fake news has rapidly increased. We outline the
various interventions within psychological science aimed at countering the spread of fake …

Background Proliferation of misinformation in digital news environments can harm society in
a number of ways, but its dangers are most acute when citizens believe that false news is …

This volume examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts
from different fields within psychology and related areas, and explores what has become a …

Researchers across many disciplines seek to understand how misinformation spreads with
a view toward limiting its impact. One important question in this research is how people …

This article offers a review of scholarly research on the phenomenon of fake news. Most
studies have so far focused on three main themes: the definition and the scope of the …

Coincident with the global rise in concern about the spread of misinformation on social
media, there has been influx of behavioral research on so-called “fake news”(fabricated or …

Implications In psychological experiments, participants are approximately as likely to accept
a piece of fake news as they are to reject a piece of true news (Altay et al., 2021a; …

Previous research has argued that fake news may have grave consequences for health
behavior, but surprisingly, no empirical data have been provided to support this assumption …

We would like to thank the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, Ruurd Oosterwoud and
DROG, Design Studio Gusmanson, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) …

Objective Fake news represents a particularly egregious and direct avenue by which
inaccurate beliefs have been propagated via social media. We investigate the psychological …