The structure of the Misinformation Susceptibility Test, using the updated hierarchical exploratory graph analysis technique with first-order structure estimated using walktrap (worst fit) vs louvain (better fit). With `color.match = TRUE` following Alicia Franco-Mtnez 🐦‍🔥's idea.

Just announced - Rakoen Maertens and I will be organizing yr 2 of the Misinformation & Belief Science preconference at #SPSP2024. Submissions open Sept 1st for posters (anyone welcome) and flash talks (postdocs & pretenure folks) - join us in San Diego! spsp.org/events/annual-…

Did you know that there's now a tool to measure your susceptibility to misinformation? 🤯The FIRST-ever psychometrically studied instrument has everyone talking, and it used Exploratory Graph Analysis and Hierarchical Exploratory Graph Analysis (among other methods) to

Many congratulations to Dr Rakoen Maertens who started this year as the Juliana Cuyler Matthews Research Fellow at University of Oxford New College, Oxford where he'll be continuing his leading research on psychometrics, influence & misinformation! 👏 psy.ox.ac.uk/people/rakoen-…

Honoured to have our work on the #misinformation susceptibility test (#MIST) featured in the University of Cambridge Alumni Newsletter's "Top 5 Stories of 2023" 🏆🎓 Cambridge University Dept of Psychology For a Twitter thread about our work on this, see: x.com/rakoenmaertens…

New milestone: the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Society for Personality and Social Psychology)'s first visit to the #UN in Geneva 👉 "SPSP’s First Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland" | spsp.org/news/newslette… With Anatolia Batruch 🇺🇦 Nicolas Sommet 🇺🇦 & Tobias Ebert

SPSP recently joined an event at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, focusing on using psychological science to reach the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Special thanks to Rakoen Maertens and our SPSP UN Committee for leading this effort! 🔗: ow.ly/4O5A50QoawH

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts. Thread 1/10🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Fantastic to see our Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST) featured on Morning Joe where NBC News Morgan Radford puts a Gen Z group to the test! How good are you at spotting misinformation? msnbc.com/morning-joe/wa…

Tutorial Alert: How to investigate the hierarchical structure of the Misinformation Susceptibility Test using the Generalized Total Entropy Fit Index and Hierarchical Exploratory Graph Analysis using the EGAnet Package for R? Read the detailed tutorial below... We'll use data

Administering a post-test right after a misinformation intervention strengthens people's memory of the lessons learned and helps the effect last longer, finds Rakoen Maertens Sander van der Linden Josh Compton Stephan Lewandowsky @roozenbot et al. doi.org/10.1111/jasp.1…

Interesting encounter with 🇧🇪 scholar Dr. Rakoen Maertens from University of Oxford who researches the psychology of dis- and misinformation, fake news, propaganda etc. A relevant topic at the 🇺🇳 as well, as the UN DGC recently published the “Global principles for information integrity”

In addition, older age and scoring high on the MIST scale by Rakoen Maertens et al. quite robustly predicted more behavioral support of conspiracy theories. Against our expectations, the conspiracy mentality questionnaire did not significantly predict any outcome.