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🚨WP🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)! 🡆Tailored AI evidence rebut specific arguments offered by believers 🡆Effect lasts 2+mo 🡆Works on entrenched beliefs osf.io/preprints/psya…

🚨New review🚨 Do warning labels on misinformation actually work? In Current Opinion in Psychology, David G. Rand @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) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨New WP🚨 Repetition increases belief ("illusory truth"). Does this mean politicians can just repeat any claims and make them widely believed by everyone? NO! We find repetition does NOT increase belief in claims from politicians who one DISTRUSTS osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/8

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

Try this Chrome extension I made to make X/Twitter better for science/research! You can highlight/remove posts with links to academic/non-academic sources etc. (thanks David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social for suggesting this!) chromewebstore.google.com/detail/post-fi…

🚨New in PNAS Nexus🚨 Twitter field exps -Users block counter-partisans 12x more than co-partisans -Dems block Reps more than vice-versa Survey exps -Why block? To not see blocked user's posts -Dem/Rep diff prob bc Dems block misinfo/toxic sharers more academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

If you’re looking to run LLM-human interaction experiments, we just posted a Qualtrics template + guide here: publish.obsidian.md/qualtrics-docu… STAY TUNED for a much more sophisticated, highly customizable, plug and play chatbot designed for research—in the coming weeks.

📢POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY📢 Come join me Gordon Pennycook & Tom Costello as we launch a research program using dialogues with LLMs as a tool to study human psychology and decision-making! Located at MIT or Cornell, and open applicants from all kinds of intellectual backgrounds/training

In a new Weekend Essay, Ted Chiang argues that artificial intelligence can’t make real art. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-UQFZr

🚨New in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 Will misinfo warning labels backfire for ppl who distrust fact-checkers? No! Labels reduce belief in & sharing of false news even for those highly distrusting of fact-checkers - warning labels are a key tool for platforms! rdcu.be/dSHtF

If you'd like to try the intervention described in this paper for yourself (i.e., an AI that provides factual counterpoints to conspiracy theories), try below. You'll be an early tester, so please forgive any bugs. debunkbot.com/conspiracies

New shinyApp to calculate scale scores w. your data. The app will calculate alpha and omega. The latter can be used w. multidimensional scales, and you can set # of dimensions. The app also gives an undirected network plot of items. gregdepow.com/?page_id=429 #scicomm #psychometrics

Check out my latest study on an easy-fix intervention for base-rate items! The good news: if we can help people improve their responses, we can’t make them worse. Paper with Cyann Bernard, John Abi Hana, Serge & Wim De Neys. rdcu.be/dST2j

I was on NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas tonight talking about our work (David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Gordon Pennycook) on countering conspiracies with AI. Thanks for such a thoughtful interview, Hallie Jackson. Check it out! Here’s the paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We found that learning a face among highly similar distractors led to worse matching task performance than not seeing the face at all! Wanna know how? Check out our Visual Cognition paper with Rebekah Corpuz, 4 years and some tears later :'D tandfonline.com/eprint/ZMHWT58…

🚨Out in Nature!🚨 Many (eg Trump JimJordan Elon Musk) have accused social media of anti-conservative bias Is this accurate? We test empirically - and it's more complicated than you might think: conservatives ARE suspended more, but also share more misinfo nature.com/articles/s4158…

I’ll be recruiting one (or two!) Ph.D. student(s) to start in Fall 2025! My lab (Culture and Morality Lab ) studies culture, cultural evolution, morality, AI, and historical psychology. Programming background is a plus, love for parentheses (and hyphens) is a must! Deadline: Dec 1st.

.Gordon Pennycook et al. found that while psychological inoculation helps detecting misinformation at scale globally, it may not be effective unless it is combined with accuracy reminders. @STWorg David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Adam Berinsky Hause Lin nature.com/articles/s4156…

👋 I'm recruiting a PhD student Kellogg School Northwestern For students interested in themes of morality, AI, social learning, computational social science. Check out my lab here shorturl.at/OcVpx | apps due 12/15 (shorturl.at/028CE)

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…