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Who falls for online misinformation? A meta-analysis on demographic and psychological factors impacting misinformation susceptibility. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya… My lovely coauthors: Alan Novaes Tump, Nina Ehmann, philipp lorenz-spreen, Ralph Hertwig, Anton Gollwitzer, @RalfKurvers 1/n

1/7: 📢 New pre-print alert! Matt Rocklage, Mohsen Mosleh, David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social and I challenge the common belief that confidence is purely a driver of misinformation susceptibility. Our results show that confidence in specific judgments might actually improve truth discernment. A 🧵👇

🚨New preprint 🚨 **A computational model of reward learning and habits on social media** 🧵 We develop a computational reward learning model of real-world social media data, which infers the separate goal-directed and habitual cognitive processes driving posting...

Out now in PNAS and led by the amazing Mubashir with a great team from Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) Max Planck Institute for Human Development, our systematic meta-analysis of individual factors for misinformation susceptibility: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Very happy to share that our work is now published in PNAS (PNASNews)! 🎉 It's a systematic look into how demographic and psychological factors are associated with misinformation susceptibility. Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) Thread below and can be read in full here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049412/…

Study: Susceptibility to online misinformation: pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10… "...older age, higher analytical thinking skills, and identifying as a Democrat are associated with higher discrimination ability." "...political identity can shape what people perceive to be true, which

Dear colleagues, please circulate, I am looking to fill a PhD position in computational neuroscience - fully funded (3 years). Part of an international collab. (4 labs) to test and develop further computational models of episodic and spatial memory cbs.mpg.de/psychology/neu…

I would be grateful for the retweets. Open PhD position in my group to look at using cognitive computational Neuro approaches to understand motivation.

New paper out in Science Magazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ Killian McLoughlin Kate Klonick M.J. Crockett 🧵👇

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🌎 Fear of AI in 20 countries 🌏 Just published in American Psychologist: Despite large variations of fear across countries and domains, we validated a unified psychological model. Paper: doi.org/10.1037/amp000…… American Psychological Association showcase: tinyurl.com/4euzan7b #ai #aiethics

As someone on the other side of this debate, it is interesting to see this defense of the claims that misinformation is both widespread and impactful. Actually, I don’t think there’s a lot of disagreement in some of the specifics. 1/

🚨Our meta-analysis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs has been accepted at Psychological Bulletin!🚨“Reasons to believe: A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs” osf.io/preprints/psya…🧵👇1/16

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🚨Job alert (in German) We're seeking a student assistant for developmental studies on deliberate ignorance Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) Max Planck Institute for Human Development ! Please see the link for details (deadline: January 17). We look forward to receiving your application! mpib-berlin.mpg.de/1952948/studen…

Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain

People in 26 countries prefer more control over their online environment. Our conjoint study explores preferences for regulating online environments by examining binary choices between different regulation scenarios osf.io/preprints/osf/… @fc_stock Kai Ruggeri

Thrilled to share that the Handbook of Computational Social Science manuscript was finally submitted to the publisher in full! Huge thanks to all the authors and reviewers who made this possible. Check out the Table of Contents!