New article in the Journal #ScienceCommunication with Cornelia Betsch 🖖: debunking attempts can effectively reduce the perceived credibility of misinformation about mRNA vaccines. And materials designed for debunking can also serve as prebunking. But 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Looking forward to hosting our 2022 Orator this evening to kick-start a long overdue public debate about Australian multiculturalism and the issues of global ethnic pluralism UWA Public Policy Institute UWA Research UWA

Massive congrats to the amazing Lucy Butler on her first 1st-author paper, which was just accepted by JARMAC!

psyarxiv.com/3fv4d/

nicolas fay UWA Psychological Science UWA Research Stephan Lewandowsky Briony Swire-Thompson

*author's
I would hate a typo in my article title!

How's this for an end-of-year Honours student gift? Love it! 😂

📢NEW PAPER How persuasive is the scientific consensus on #climate ? We track info diets over time post-exposure & find MOST durable effects among OPPOSITIONAL audiences. Consistent with Bayesian rather than motivated cognition

A 🧵on motivated reasoning

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Honoured to be Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him) Wes’ Geek of the Week! 🤓
Our social-media simulation, the Misinformation Game, can be freely accessed here: psyarxiv.com/628wc/ Lucy Butler Paddy Lamont

'And we do still have misinformation, some of it from people who should know better. Today, the former Deputy Chief Medical Officer … said we should not be vaccinating children because the risks outweigh the benefits.

Must be rocket scientists doing the puzzling. #ThisIsNotJournalism

Infuriating to see this BS aimed at parents & kids.

BTW: The 'nano' means 'the particle size is small enough to detoxify at a cellular level.'

AND '...it has an affinity for toxins!' WTF?

We need regulatory tools that can stop this bunk-o-rama scienceploitation.

So WaPo has a great new evidence-based guide on how to talk to your misinfo-believing friends & family feat. Leticia Bode Mike Wagner & me. Good luck y'all: washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/…

We finish up with a list of 10 evidence-based recommendations for conducting ethical research on #misinformation and #FakeNews

Huge thanks to Gillian Murphy, Constance de Saint Laurent, Karen Hegarty, Toby Prike and Ullrich Ecker 😷💉💉💉💉

How can researchers study effects of #misinformation and #fakenews while protecting participants from harm? Our new paper, forthcoming in European Psychologist, tackles this question
psyarxiv.com/j9n3q/

Gillian Murphy Ullrich Ecker 😷💉💉💉💉 Karen Hegarty

Nice paper -- fits with some of our findings that the format of corrections doesn't matter much! doi.org/10.1186/s41235…

Does exposure to misinformation change behaviour? In our new paper, we test the effect of news about COVID vaccines on reported intentions to get vaccinated across 3 preregistered experiments (N = 3463).🧵

Ciara Greene HealthResearchBoard

The power of disinformation is mind-blowing & it’s dangerous.

Let me give you a very recent example that almost certainly cost lives…

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Year after year, academic publishers report record margins because they take advantage of the free labor of exhausted editors and reviewers. We believe that it is time for a change. That is why we founded a publisher that pays editors and reviewers for their work. A thread 🧵 1/

Very happy to have been able to contribute a chapter on online disinformation together with Edda Humprecht to this great & #openaccess book and database project:

Our chapter ➡️ link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Whole book ➡️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
Database ➡️ hope.uzh.ch/doca/index

🚨New WP🚨

How should researchers determine whether misinformation interventions work?

We argue that researchers should 1) measure whether people believe or share both false *and* true content and 2) assess efficacy using a measure of discernment 🧵

psyarxiv.com/gv8qx