Gordon Pennycook

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.

Jan 13, 2024 | msnbc.com | Gordon Pennycook

Aaron Rodgers, the New York Jets quarterback recently implied that comedian Jimmy Kimmel had a nefarious connection with the late accused pedophile and sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, would no longer be appearing on ESPN's “The Pat McAfee Show” show this NFL season, its host said Wednesday. “‘Aaron Rodgers Tuesday,’ season 4 is done,” McAfee said. “There are going to be a lot of people happy with that, myself included to be honest.” But, then, Rodgers was right back on McAfee's show the next day.

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.

Jun 29, 2023 | nature.com | Antonio A. Arechar |Adam Berinsky |Jackson G. Lu |Robert Ross |Gordon Pennycook

AbstractThe spread of misinformation online is a global problem that requires global solutions. To that end, we conducted an experiment in 16 countries across 6 continents (N = 34,286; 676,605 observations) to investigate predictors of susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19, and interventions to combat the spread of this misinformation.