Although there have been examples of counter-stereotypical programming, such as The Cosby Show, it can reasonably be argued that television still frequently portrays Blacks in a stereotypical manner (Dates & Barlow, 1990; Evuleocha & Ugbah, 1989; Graves, 1993). Dates and Barlow (1990), for example, have reported that Blacks are often portrayed as less competent than Whites and have less “seriou...

This paper is the first, to our knowledge, to investigate the cost of financial reporting fraud to the real economy by considering how misinformation about competitors’ profits might lead a firm to make misguided decisions when it updates its strategy each period. We use an agent-based model to show that misinformation might significantly slow and/or inhibit firms’ ability to learn about consum...

Misinformation and disinformation prevent citizens from making choices that are in their own best interests. While scientists have little influence over the content regulation of social media channels can encourage amplify mis- disinformation, there some interventions scientific community mitigate impacts such as communicating better how build trust research results encouraging critical thinkin...

After many years of studies, experimentation, and deployment, large amounts of misinformation and misconceptions remain regarding applicability of various communications protocols for use in satellite and spacebased networks. This paper attempts to remove much of the politics, misconceptions, and misinformation that have plagued space-based communications protocol development and deployment. Th...