The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

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

Political polarization, a concern in many countries, is especially acrimonious in the United
States (see the first box). For decades, scholars have studied polarization as an ideological …

The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has been accompanied by
a large amount of misleading and false information about the virus, especially on social …

Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the United States.
Using the geotracking data of 15 million smartphones per day, we found that US counties …

Current advances in research, development and application of artificial intelligence (AI)
systems have yielded a far-reaching discourse on AI ethics. In consequence, a number of …

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 …

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

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 …

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