Ashley Blum

🚨New review🚨 Do warning labels on misinformation actually work?

In Current Opinion in Psychology, @dgrand.bsky.social & I show that the answer is YES: warnings can reduce belief & sharing by ~25-50%!
We also review moderators (eg more visible=bigger effect)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

24.04.2024 21:38 — 👍 72    🔁 37    💬 1    📌 2

new paper!

03.04.2024 20:34 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🚨WP🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right?
WRONG: We show that brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)!
🡆Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers
🡆Effect undiminished after 2mo
🡆Works even on entrenched beliefs
osf.io/preprints/ps...

03.04.2024 19:32 — 👍 113    🔁 52    💬 12    📌 20

reposting again. application portal is open and we will be reviewing files on a rolling basis.

23.01.2024 22:29 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Authoritarian media and foreign protests: evidence from a decade of Russian news The proliferation of protests around the world poses challenges for authoritarian media outlets. While censoring news about protests abroad may push audiences to alternative news sources, their cov...

Neat new article in Post-Soviet Affairs about how Russian television covers foreign protests. A tricky issue. Kremlin wants to show instability outside of Russia, but also wants to say "Kids, don't try this at home." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

31.10.2023 00:25 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'll be recruiting a PhD student in the next cycle - please pass this along to anyone who might interested in joining my lab at Cornell! Open-ended, but interest in topics relating to intuition/reason, metacognition, overconfidence, misinformation, or beliefs is a bonus!

27.09.2023 14:45 — 👍 51    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 1

Hi @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social can I be added to the list? Thanks!

26.09.2023 04:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0