Antonio A. Aréchar

Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents - Nature Human Beh... Across 16 countries, this research finds consistent cognitive and social predictors of COVID-19 misinformation susceptibility, and shows how accuracy prompts and literacy tips reduce misinformation sh...

📜 Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents

🧑‍🔬 Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook & David G. Rand et al.

📔 Nature Human Behaviour

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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13.10.2023 12:25 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Know that influential finding that more numerate ppl are more politically biased?

We did NOT replicate it in large probability sample
Across 5 issues, more numeracy = more correct ans

Tho political alignment DID have main effect (controlling for priors)

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

21.09.2023 21:07 — 👍 82    🔁 36    💬 3    📌 0

New Epstein, Arechar, and Rand testing perceptions of different labels for AI-generated content
psyarxiv.com/v4mfz

28.07.2023 20:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Figure 3: Consistent cross-cultural evidence that truth discernment is associated with analytic thinking, accuracy motivations and ideology

Cross-country misinformation accuracy and sharing

Misinformation accuracy

Figure 6: Ratings from even small groups of laypeople can reliably distinguish true from false headlines

Who falls for misinformation around the globe?

Individuals with high analytic cognitive style, accuracy motivations, and valuing of democracy are better at discerning misinformation from true claims. Really fascinating paper that looks at 16 countries across 6 continents.

22.09.2023 16:40 — 👍 140    🔁 67    💬 6    📌 5

Hello World! #myfirstpost 😀

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