🚨Out in PNAS!🚨 Political microtargeting has caused great concern (eg Cambridge Analytica) But does it actually WORK? To find out we quantified the persuasive advantage of political microtargeting for US issue advocacy The answer is complicated... 1/ pnas.org/eprint/AWU8WZ9…

🚨!!Out today in @Science!!🚨 In a massive interdisciplinary collaboration between 14 researchers across institutions, we rectify misconceptions and offer key research directions to inform policy and beneficial uses of generative AI. Thread below: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨Out in Nature Human Behaviour🚨 We examine psychology of misinformation across 16 countries, N=34k ➤Consistent cognitive, social & ideological predictors of misinfo belief ➤Interventions (accuracy prompts, diglit tips, crowdsourcing) all broadly effective nature.com/articles/s4156… 1/

Understanding and combatting #misinformation across 16 countries on six continents nature.com/articles/s4156… by Antonio A. Aréchar Adam Berinsky Gordon Pennycook David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social et al. Greater truth discernment: > analytic > accuracy related motivation > valuing democracy Accuracy nudges help!

People with more analytic cognitive style and stronger accuracy-related motivations are better at discerning truth from misinformation: Antonio A. Aréchar nature.com/articles/s4156…

New paper with @NourKteily, out today in PNASNews! "How reputation does (and does not) drive people to punish without looking" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵👇

Excited to share a new paper, out today in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! "A pull versus push framework for reputation" sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵👇

🚨New WP🚨 Theres big push to label AI generated content. But what term(s) should be used? Depends on the goal! In🇺🇸🇧🇷🇲🇽,public associates "AI Generated" with content generated using AI, while "Manipulated" & "Not Real" associated w misleading content psyarxiv.com/v4mfz 1/

New paper in Association for Psychological Science! 🚨 Here's the one-minute version. ⏱️ There are two cities in Iran. One has water, so it has gardens, grapes, and the famous Shiraz wine.

People who value accuracy + democracy are the least likely to fall for #misinformation An experiment in 16 countries across 6 continents (N = 34,286) finds several ideological & cognitive factors predict who is better at discerning truth from falsehood. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Who falls for misinformation around the globe? Individuals with high analytic cognitive style, accuracy motivations, and valuing of democracy are better at discerning misinformation from true claims. Really fascinating paper that looks at 16 countries across 6 continents.

Very thorough paper from in Nature Human Behaviour from Antonio A. Aréchar Jennifer Allen Adam Berinsky Cole, Zivvy Ξpstein Kiran Garimella Gully, Lu, Ross, Stagnaro, Yunhao (Jerry) Zhang Gordon Pennycook & David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s4156…

Across 16 countries (N = 34,286), participants with a more analytic cognitive style were better at discerning truth from falsehood Antonio A. Aréchar nature.com/articles/s4156…

🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific. osf.io/preprints/psya…

#EconTwitter | Antonio Arechar, prof-invetigador del CIDE y coautores en "The social media context interferes with truth discernment" estudian el rol las redes sociales en la desinformación. Artículo completo: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New research shows how attention lapses are exploited by fake news sites news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/st-and… Key: "Think before you click"! When people "are tired, overwhelmed, or just plain lazy, they’re less likely to think about the veracity of a news story, and can get stuck into

Which interventions limit the spread of COVID-19 misinformation online? A Facebook messenger experiment in Kenya and Nigeria suggests that nudges to consider information accuracy work best. Molly Offer-Westort Leah Rosenzweig Susan Athey @GSBsiLa nature.com/articles/s4156…

🚨Out in Nature!🚨 Many (eg Trump JimJordan Elon Musk) have accused social media of anti-conservative bias Is this accurate? We test empirically - and it's more complicated than you might think: conservatives ARE suspended more, but also share more misinfo nature.com/articles/s4158…

Self-reported sharing intentions of low-quality news in surveys is predictive of actual sharing of low-quality news on X, finds Antonio A. Aréchar Mohsen Mosleh Gordon Pennycook David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

1/ Many frontier AIs are willing to persuade on dangerous topics, according to our new benchmark: Attempt to Persuade Eval (APE). Here’s Google’s most capable model, Gemini 2.5 Pro trying to convince a user to join a terrorist group👇