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This study examined whether accuracy nudges and content veracity labels enhance people’s discernment in believing and sharing true versus false news. Participants in the United Kingdom, the United States, and […]
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This study examined whether accuracy nudges and content veracity labels enhance people’s discernment in believing and sharing true versus false news. Participants in the United Kingdom, the United States, and […]
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Disinformation often features reputable sources to boost false information’s credibility, but does this deceptive source misattribution shape its spread on personal messaging? In a preregistered between-subjects survey experiment on U.K. […]
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This systematic review of reviews aimed to determine whether and the extent to which narratives were persuasive. Our analysis of 30 systematic reviews revealed an overall persuasive advantage of narratives […]
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We argue for more serious consideration of interpretive qualitative approaches in research on information credibility evaluation in digitally mediated contexts. Through reviewing existing literature on credibility and drawing on our […]
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Numerous psychological findings have shown that incidental exposure to ideas makes those ideas seem more true, a finding commonly referred to as the ‘illusory truth’ effect. Under many accounts of […]
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Nearly three billion people actively use Facebook, making it the largest social media platform in the world. Previous research shows that the social media platform reduces users’ happiness, while increasing […]
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Social media platforms like YouTube and Twitter play a key role in disseminating both reliable and unreliable information about climate change. This study analyses the topology of interactions in Twitter […]
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Confidence in political institutions has reportedly been in decline over the past 40 years. Yet there is heterogeneity in how this phenomenon has manifested across countries, political institutions and people with […]
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Political trust is widely considered essential for democracy, but empirical evidence testing this hypothesis remains limited. Drawing on research that connects political trust to democratic legitimacy, highlights trust’s behavioural and […]
