Misinformation occurs when people hold incorrect factual beliefs and do so confidently. The
problem, first conceptualized by Kuklinski and colleagues in 2000, plagues political systems …

Previous research indicated that corrective information can sometimes provoke a so-called
“backfire effect” in which respondents more strongly endorsed a misperception about a …

Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

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 …

Researchers have increasingly turned to online convenience samples as sources of survey
responses that are easy and inexpensive to collect. As reliance on these sources has grown …

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 …

We examine the role of overconfidence in news judgment using two large nationally
representative survey samples. First, we show that three in four Americans overestimate …

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 …

How do citizens want to be represented by elected officials in an era of affective
polarization? Contemporary narratives about American politics argue that people embrace …

The problem of a misinformed citizenry is often used to motivate research on misinformation
and its corrections. However, researchers know little about how differences in informedness …