To actually buy environmentally friendly products, consumers need to recognize legitimate sustainable claims. This is a challenge considering the dissemination of misinformation in advertising promoting products typically referred as greenwashing. In an experimental design (N = 302) we investigated two different literacy measures that aim at increasing about greenwashing: informative text (text...

This study aims to investigate public protest slogans in response the Biden Administration's announcement of two COVID-19 vaccination regulations on November 4, 2021. We identified three themes: (1) support for individual freedom/rights, (2) opposition government's control, and (3) anti-science reasoning/misinformation/disinformation. Major policy recommendations include implementing efforts di...

The use of social media has accelerated information sharing and instantaneous communications. low barrier to entering enables more users participate keeps them engaged longer, incentivizing individuals with a hidden agenda spread disinformation online manipulate sway opinion. Disinformation, such as fake news, hoaxes, conspiracy theories, increasingly become hindrance the functioning an effecti...

Information disorder has become an increasing concern in the wake of 2016 US presidential election. With state COVID-19 pandemic rapidly evolving all facets, vaccination debate increasingly polarized and subjected to a form politics based around identity markers such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, ideology. At forefront this is anti-vaccination movement that gained mainstream attention, lea...

Pro-Kremlin disinformation campaigns have long targeted Ukraine. We investigate susceptibility to this pro-Kremlin from a cognitive-science perspective. Is greater analytic thinking associated with less belief in disinformation, as per classical theories of reasoning? Or does amplify motivated system 2 reasoning (or “cultural cognition”), such that is more polarized beliefs (and thus among pro-...

Disinformation is a serious problem for democratic systems in open societies. It global phenomenon that must be studied from different approaches and the educational dimension one of most relevant. necessary to know what models have been developed empower citizens against disinformation. A systematic review literature (2011-2020), following PRISMA protocol, was carried out by analyzing articles...

Abstract An analysis of an archive formed by editorials from two the most important Brazilian newspapers during first years Covid-19 pandemic identified predominance a framing that attributed decisions Bolsonaro government to denial science. Based on historical and sociological sources, this paper discusses what normative about science health ignored, especially how extreme-right adapted use pa...