False and misleading information is readily accessible in people's environments, oftentimes
reaching people repeatedly. This repeated exposure can significantly affect people's beliefs …

Alarmist narratives about online misinformation continue to gain traction despite evidence
that its prevalence and impact are overstated. Drawing on research examining the use of big …

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Misperceptions threaten to warp mass opinion and public policy on controversial issues in
politics, science, and health. What explains the prevalence and persistence of these false …

Current debate is dominated by fears of the threats of digital technology for democracy. One
typical example is the perceived threats of malicious actors promoting disinformation …

Do partisan disagreements over politically relevant facts, and preferences for the information
sources from which to obtain them, represent genuine differences of opinion or insincere …

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; …

An increasing number of studies exploit the occurrence of unexpected events during the
fieldwork of public opinion surveys to estimate causal effects. In this paper, we discuss the …

We propose deception as a bridging concept that will enhance the study of misinformation,
disinformation, and misperceptions. As we set it out here, the concept integrates insights …

Why would people share news they think might not be accurate? We identify a factor that,
alongside accuracy, drives the sharing of true and fake news: the 'interestingness-if-true'of a …