It is hard to escape false information in the modern world. People throw out beliefs that fly in the face of established science or contradict verified events on social media, in the mainstream media, ...
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into everyday life, Ophir is uncovering how false and misleading ...
To study the effects of misinformation on attitudes, some social science experiments expose participants to false, misleading, or dangerous information. Most Institutional Review Boards require that ...
In this chapter, we examine the impacts of misinformation about science with the aim of understanding those that most warrant intervention to prevent harm to individuals, communities, and society.
The misinformation effect describes how exposure to inaccurate or leading post-event information can alter an eyewitness’s recollection of an original event. Memory is inherently reconstructive, ...
replying to L. H. Butler et al. Nature Human Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02245-y (2025) In our meta-analysis 1, we investigated how misinformation ...
A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, propelling dangerous misinformation about life-saving jabs that still ...
Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free ...
To study the effects of misinformation on attitudes, some social science experiments expose participants to false, misleading, or dangerous information. Most Institutional Review Boards require that ...
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