Interventions to counter #misinformation are often ineffective against politically polarizing content.

We recently developed an intervention harnessing the power of social norms.

It reduces the spread of misinformation by 25%—making it 5X as powerful as other popular…

¿Cómo ha cambiado el mundo el botón de 'Like'?

Lee mi entrevista con Begoña Gómez Urzaiz sobre el impacto psicológico del 'Like' aquí 👇

🚨In one of the largest experiments conducted in #ClimateChange psychology –63 countries, 258 collaborators, almost 60k participants– we reveal targeted strategies to increase climate change awareness and action around the globe. out in Science Advances shorturl.at/jsMTX🧵

We tested 10 behavioral interventions to mitigate #climatechange in 63 countries (N = 59,440)

The interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes:

-Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological…

Labeling misinformation as misleading and from fellow in-group members (e.g., dem/ rep) makes people less likely to share it, suggesting social identity is effective in mitigating misinfo, finds Clara Pretus Kobi Hackenburg Manos Tsakiris Jay Van Bavel, PhD Jay Van Bavel, PhD Jay Van Bavel, PhD

Our new paper describes that 'The Identity-based Model of Political Belief' and explains how social identity shapes information processing and contributes to the belief and spread of #misinformation
Partisanship involves cognitive and motivational aspects that shape party…

Don't miss our most recent work on crowdsourcing interventions against partisan misinformation. Out now! 🎉👇🏼

How Political Partisanship Can Be Deadly

This new article in Psychology Today explains the costs of polarization during the pandemic from our recent review of the research psychologytoday.com/us/blog/denyin…

Political elites deserve much of the blame.

🚨Starting the new year with a new preprint🥳we describe the data collected from The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries osf.io/preprints/psya… Boryana Todorova Prof. Madalina Vlasceanu Jay Van Bavel, PhD

This is finally out! 👇🏼

'individuals who exhibited steeper increases in radicalism were those who had previously experienced police violence (social dynamics hypothesis), those who identified as separatists (separatist identity hypothesis), and those who held Catalan independence as a sacred value'

Our final article of the year is this interesting piece by Clara Pretus, Hammad Sheikh, PhD 🔍, Nafees Hamid, PhD, & Scott Atran: 'Predicting Radicalism After Perceived Injustice: The Role of Separatist Identity, Sacred Values, and Police Violence'. Open Access: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp… (1/2)

Read online today: Rezarta Bilali (2023). Narrative media interventions influence efficacy beliefs, social norms, and choice of behavioral options: A field experiment in Burkina Faso. bit.ly/47LWOOK

Check out our latest paper on what drives political violence as we followed a peaceful movement turning violent. A rare moment that we were able to capture using a longitudinal psychometric design.