The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction

UKH Ecker, S Lewandowsky, J Cook… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy

P Lorenz-Spreen, L Oswald, S Lewandowsky… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world

I Kickbusch, D Piselli, A Agrawal, R Balicer, O Banner… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary From the short-term and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to
the health insecurities brought about by climate change, health futures are unfolding in an …

Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens

A Kozyreva, S Wineburg… - Current Directions …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people's attention, often by
evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online …

Difficult trade-offs in response to COVID-19: the case for open and inclusive decision making

OF Norheim, JM Abi-Rached, LK Bright, K Bærøe… - Nature Medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Difficult trade-offs in response to COVID-19: the case for open and inclusive decision making |
Nature Medicine Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a …

Boosting: Empowering citizens with behavioral science

SM Herzog, R Hertwig - Annual Review of Psychology, 2025 - annualreviews.org
Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to
steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (eg …

Public attitudes towards algorithmic personalization and use of personal data online: Evidence from Germany, Great Britain, and the United States

A Kozyreva, P Lorenz-Spreen, R Hertwig… - Humanities and Social …, 2021 - nature.com
People rely on data-driven AI technologies nearly every time they go online, whether they
are shopping, scrolling through news feeds, or looking for entertainment. Yet despite their …

Toolbox of interventions against online misinformation and manipulation

The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of
society, including public health and the state of democracies. A wide range of individual …

How can psychological science help counter the spread of fake news?

S Van der Linden, J Roozenbeek… - The Spanish Journal …, 2021 - cambridge.org
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 …

The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST): A psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment

R Maertens, FM Götz, HF Golino, J Roozenbeek… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Interest in the psychology of misinformation has exploded in recent years. Despite ample
research, to date there is no validated framework to measure misinformation susceptibility …