Memory can be distorted by misleading post-event information. These memory distortions may have serious consequences, for example in eyewitness testimony. Many situations in which memory reports are solicited, and suggestive or misleading information is presented, are highly stressful for the respondent, yet little is known about how stress affects people's susceptibility to misinformation. Her...

OBJECTIVES We examined whether misleading information (i.e. misinformation) may promote symptom reporting in non-clinical participants. DESIGN A test-retest study in which we collected baseline data about participants' psychological symptoms and then misinformed them that they had rated two target symptoms relatively highly. During an interview, we determined whether participants would notice...

Abstract: Developing effective interventions to counter misinformation is an urgent goal, but it also presents conceptual, empirical, and practical difficulties, compounded by the fact that research in its infancy. This paper provides researchers policymakers with overview of which individual-level are likely influence spread of, susceptibility to, or impact misinformation. We review evidence f...

Massive amounts of fake news and conspiratorial content have spread over social media before and after the 2016 US Presidential Elections despite intense fact-checking efforts. How do the spread of misinformation and fact-checking compete? What are the structural and dynamic characteristics of the core of the misinformation diffusion network, and who are its main purveyors? How to reduce the ov...

public understanding of the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change can be protected (“inoculated”) against influential misinformation. Results from a large survey experiment indicate that public perceptions of the scientific consensus can be effectively inoculated against misinformation across the political spectrum. S. van der Linden,* A. Leiserowitz, S. Rosenthal, E. Maibach .......

An obsession with gauging accuracy of individual posts is misguided. To strengthen information ecosystems, focus on narratives and why people share what they do.