New paper Collabra: Psychology with @hardsci, Reza Rejaie, & Maureen Zalewski (not on twitter), in which we examine how well we can predict mental health from the accounts people follow on Twitter.🧵with highlights (1/8) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

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When I had just started my job at NYU Center for Neural Science NYU Psychology in 2013, I pitched a project to incoming graduate students. It was a wild new direction for me: using board games to understand how people think ahead. 7.5 years later, we have a preprint. psyarxiv.com/rhq5j/ 1/

I am really pleased to see our paper w/Toni van der Meer and Rens Vliegenthart on the affinity between disinformation and hate speech out open access in IC&S. Key finding: the stronger false information deviates from the truth, the more likely it contains incivility. See: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How do climate change skeptics engage with opposing views? Understanding mechanisms of social identity and cognitive dissonance in an online forum - Fresh draft with Jonathan Bright 🇺🇦 out on arxiv.org/abs/2102.06516 ! ✨

Is combat-related PTSD unique to industrialized warfare? Half decade in the making, but worth the wait, new paper wt Matt Zefferman (now @mzefferman.bsky.social) on PTSD in Turkana warriors answers this question. Open access in PNAS. pnas.org/content/118/15…

🤓📣 Now out in Psychological Review (APA Journals ): "A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments for physical events" with Noah Goodman, David Lagnado & Joshua Tenenbaum. 📰: psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-52… 🗞️pre-print: psyarxiv.com/7zj94/ 📎: github.com/cicl-stanford/…

Now out in JEP:G. "Inference from Explanation" by Lara Kirfel w Thomas Icard & myself. 📰psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-13… 📜psyarxiv.com/x5mqc Also, I'm excited to announce that Lara will be joining the CiCL as a postdoc 🥳🎈🌴 I'm looking forward to many more projects together!

New paper in Association for Psychological Science led by Christos Bechlivanidis, with @MarcBuehner, David Lagnado, Teresa McCormack & Christoph Hoerl: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… We showed that adults' perceived temporal order of events involves active interpretation informed by causal assumptions

'The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction', a Review by Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social, @STWorg, John Cook, Philipp Schmid, Lisa Fazio, Nadia Brashier, Dr. Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou, Dr. Emily Vraga & @commscholar nature.com/articles/s4415…

In this tweet, Nature Reviews Psychology from Springer Nature Limited describes a Journal Club by Li Qian Tay from @uwapsych describing a paper by @dingding_peng on methods for causal analysis describing graphical methods developed by Judea Pearl.

How should we evaluate #misinformation interventions? Our latest commentary by Li Qian Tay Stephan Lewandowsky Mark Hurlstone Tim Kurtz & Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social explores recent advancements & gaps in current efforts to counter misinformation and #disinformation . misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/a-focu…

There is concern that many ills in Western societies are caused by misinformation. Some researchers argue that misinformation is merely a symptom, not a cause. This is a false dichotomy. @liqiantay @ulliecker Stephan Lewandowsky nature.com/articles/s4427…

Grüning and colleagues review digital interventions for promoting prosocial online behaviour and provide insights and tips for collaborations between academic researchers and practitioners. David J. Grüning Matthew Katsaros Folco Panizza philipp lorenz-spreen nature.com/articles/s4427…

New paper out: Source-credibility information and social norms improve truth discernment and reduce engagement with misinformation online link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Misinformation remains a threat to democracy. nature.com/articles/d4158… @roozenbot Sander van der Linden Li Qian Tay John Cook NaomiOreskes Stephan Lewandowsky

🚨How can we draw causal inferences in misinfo & conspiracy theory research? A new paper in advances.in/psychology argues for using instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, diff-in-diffs & synthetic control. Li Qian Tay Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social advances.in/psychology/10.…

🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/

🚨 New publication alert! "Intellectual humility is associated with greater misinformation discernment and metacognitive insight but not response bias" by Prike, Holloway, & Ecker. Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social advances.in/psychology/10.…

New article in American Psychologist! We respond to critics & clarify two key points for the field; (1) The prevalence of misinformation in society is substantial when properly defined. (2) Misinformation can causally impact attitudes and behaviors. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…