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  • There’s a Psychological ‘Vaccine’ against Misinformation | Scientific American

    March 16, 2023

    Misinformation can feel inescapable. Last summer a survey from the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies found that 62 percent of people regularly notice false or misleading information online. And […]

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  • Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM)

    September 20, 2022

    After three successful editions, the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) returns for a 4th edition, this time hosted as a fully virtual conference by Boise State University […]

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  • Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate, Statistical Science | Duke University

    August 26, 2022

    The Polarization Lab at Duke University is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Associate to begin immediately. We seek a recent PhD in political science, sociology, social psychology, statistics, computer or […]

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  • Memory and Belief Regression After the Correction of Misinformation | Shorenstein Center

    April 21, 2022

    The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory […]

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  • The link between depression and misinformation explained | Mashable

    March 7, 2022

    When Dr. Roy Perlis partnered with peers and colleagues to conduct an ongoing survey of Americans about COVID-19, the Harvard Medical School psychiatrist knew the team had to ask about […]

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  • Stuart Soroka

    February 9, 2022

    Stuart Soroka is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on political communication, political psychology, and the relationships between public policy, […]

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  • The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction | Nature Reviews Psychology

    January 12, 2022

    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 pandemic. Not only can belief in […]

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  • Computer Model Seeks to Explain the Spread of Misinformation, and Suggest Counter Measures | Tufts Now

    January 11, 2022

    It starts with a superspreader, and winds its way through a network of interactions, eventually leaving no one untouched. Those who have been exposed previously may experience little effect when […]

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  • Sweden’s new Psychological Defense Agency to combat disinformation, fake news | The Washington Post

    January 7, 2022

    Sweden is launching a new agency to defend against a rising threat: disinformation — organized campaigns to spread false information. The Scandinavian country, home to about 10 million people, established […]

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  • Social Media Gave the Miserable a Voice | The Atlantic

    December 28, 2021

    Every morning, I wake up and grab my doom machine. My phone is a piece of revolutionary technology that puts the entire world a scroll away, its every pixel an […]

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