Adam Berinsky

Nov 3, 2024 | nature.com | Gordon Pennycook |Adam Berinsky |Beth Goldberg |Stephan Lewandowsky

AbstractMisinformation is a major focus of intervention efforts. Psychological inoculation—an intervention intended to help people identify manipulation techniques—is being adopted at scale around the globe. Yet the efficacy of this approach for increasing belief accuracy remains unclear, as prior work uses synthetic materials that do not contain claims of truth.

May 12, 2024 | nature.com | Anastasia Kozyreva |Philipp Lorenz-Spreen |Stefan M. Herzog |Stephan Lewandowsky |Ralph Hertwig |Joe Bak-Coleman | +17 more

AbstractThe spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation focuses on individual-level interventions, equipping policymakers and the public with essential tools to curb the spread and influence of falsehoods. Here we introduce a toolbox of individual-level interventions for reducing harm from online misinformation.

Sep 16, 2023 | audiobooks.com | Adam Berinsky

Summary Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging, there were other rumors that continued to spread even after they were thoroughly debunked, including doubts about 9/11 (an 'inside job') and the furor over President Obama's birthplace and birth certificate.

Aug 29, 2023 | journals.uchicago.edu | Chloe Wittenberg |Matthew Baum |Adam Berinsky |Justin de Benedictis-Kessner

To what extent do partisan media influence political attitudes and behavior? Although recent methodological advancements have improved scholars’ ability to identify the persuasiveness of partisan media, past studies typically rely on self-reported measures of media preferences, which may deviate from real-world news consumption.

Jul 18, 2023 | nature.com | Antonio A. Arechar |Adam Berinsky |Jackson G. Lu |Robert Ross |Gordon Pennycook

Correction to: Nature Human Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01641-6. Published online 29 June 2023. In the version of this article initially published, a portion of the Competing interests statement was incorrect and has been clarified to read “R.C. and A.G. were employees of Google when the work was conducted. A.J.B. and G.P. were Faculty Research Fellows at Google for several months in 2002”. The statement has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.