New paper with Gabriela Czarnek, @dgrand.bsky.social and @adamberinsky.bsky.social out in Political Behavior! Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

After the Takeover: Rebuilding Trust in Public Media Through Institutional Reform - Political Behavior

We examine the dynamics of citizens’ trust in public media during government-led efforts to implement major media reforms in a highly polarized context using two cross-sectional experiments. After Pol...

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🚨New review🚨 Do warning labels on misinformation actually work? In Current Opinion in Psychology, @dgrand.bsky.social & I show that the answer is YES: warnings can reduce belief & sharing by ~25-50%! We also review moderators (eg more visible=bigger effect) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

new paper!

David Rand@dgrand.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨WP🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right? WRONG: We show that brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)! 🡆Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers 🡆Effect undiminished after 2mo 🡆Works even on entrenched beliefs osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨WP🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right? WRONG: We show that brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)! 🡆Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers 🡆Effect undiminished after 2mo 🡆Works even on entrenched beliefs osf.io/preprints/ps...

reposting again. application portal is open and we will be reviewing files on a rolling basis.

Adam Berinsky@adamberinsky.bsky.social · 3y ago

Hey polisci friends. We are hiring a new/recent undergrad as a research support associate at MIT. This job is great for a BA who is thinking about going to a social science graduate program and wants to get some experience. It's NOT a good job for someone with a PhD. bit.ly/4b5iHef

Neat new article in Post-Soviet Affairs about how Russian television covers foreign protests. A tricky issue. Kremlin wants to show instability outside of Russia, but also wants to say "Kids, don't try this at home." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'll be recruiting a PhD student in the next cycle - please pass this along to anyone who might interested in joining my lab at Cornell! Open-ended, but interest in topics relating to intuition/reason, metacognition, overconfidence, misinformation, or beliefs is a bonus!