Mubashir Sultan
@msultan.bsky.social
PhD researcher at the Max Planck Institute (ARC) studying misinformation, decision-making, and social media.
How exciting to see that this is now out for all to read! Congratulations Alex and team! :) 🎉
Alexander Schakowski@alexschakowski.bsky.social · 6mo agoVery happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
Curious about how smartphones shape children’s development? We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team. iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...
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Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d)
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Understanding the impact of misinformation on adolescents www.nature.com/articles/s41... Adolescents = changes that "can increase vulnerability to misinformation through social influence, emotional manipulation and cognitive biases..."
Understanding the impact of misinformation on adolescents - Nature Human Behaviour
Adolescents are especially vulnerable to misinformation but also possess unique strengths. This Perspective outlines a forward-looking research agenda to understand these vulnerabilities and foster re...
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How adolescents can become resilient to digital misinformation www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... "Teenagers tend to respond more strongly to emotional messages than adults do. Misinformation often takes advantage of this by using emotions such as fear, anger or outrage to spread quickly."
How Adolescents Can Become Resilient to Digital Misinformation
Young people are particularly susceptible to misleading information on social media. Yet insights from developmental psychology show that they also have unique strengths to build resilience. In new re...
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Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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🌟🧠💪📝 #BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology. PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025 For more: scienceofboosting.org @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social #policy #behavioralscience 1/ 🧵👇
New year, new research: In our latest paper published in JEP:LMC, my co-authors Thorsten Pachur, Wolfgang Gaissmaier and I answer the question: “Is there a description–experience gap in choices between a described and an experienced option?” (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...)
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I created this starter pack of researchers based in Europe who study misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda. I suspect this list will grow -- get in touch with suggestions go.bsky.app/36RdG8Z
academics from poorer backgrounds are: -severely underrepresented -more likely to not publish -have outstanding publication records -introduce more novel scientific concepts, but less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations & awards www.nber.org/papers/w33289
Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐 Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊 ❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail 👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...
Senior Researcher & Team Lead for Transparent Social Analytics and Open Science
GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research institute, funded by federal and state governments and member of the Leibniz Association. Starting as soon as po...
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Check out @fstock.bsky.social's new study--a cross-cultural study on preferences to control one's online environment!
Friederike Stock@fstock.bsky.social · 2y agoPeople in 26 countries prefer more control over their online environment In a conjoint study (N = 11,868), we explored preferences for regulating online environments by examining binary choices between different regulation scenarios. Preprint:https://osf.io/preprints/osf/haqu9
In this new article in American Psychologist we respond to critics in detail and clarify two key points for the field; (1) The prevalence of misinformation in society is substantial when properly defined. (2) Misinformation causally impacts attitudes and behaviors. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
Junior Professorship (W1, non tenured) in Computational Social Science
Deadline: 7th of January 2025
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We asked people in 8 countries 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 how they use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find overall platform ambivalence - people use platforms for news & info about politics, but they're also skeptical of the information they see there. 1/
Waqas Ejaz@waqasejaz.bsky.social · 2y ago📢In our new report, co-authored with @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social, we examine how people in🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’, and a lot more (1/5).
New study in PNAS reveals how age, analytical thinking, and political alignment shape susceptibility to online misinformation. Media literacy remains crucial in combating fake news. #Misinformation #MediaLiteracy #Research #OnlineSafety #SocialPsychology
Mubashir Sultan@msultan.bsky.social · 2y agoVery happy to share that our work is now published in PNAS! 🎉 It's a systematic look into how demographic and psychological factors are associated with misinformation susceptibility. @arc-mpib.bsky.social Thread below and can be read in full here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Very happy to share that our work is now published in PNAS! 🎉 It's a systematic look into how demographic and psychological factors are associated with misinformation susceptibility. @arc-mpib.bsky.social Thread below and can be read in full here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Mubashir Sultan@msultan.bsky.social · 2y agoWho falls for online misinformation? A meta-analysis on demographic and psychological factors impacting misinformation susceptibility. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... My lovely coauthors: @alantump.bsky.social Nina Ehmann, @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig, Anton Gollwitzer, @RalfKurvers 1/n
Our new paper takes you Inside the funhouse mirror factory and explains how social media distorts perceptions of norms 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news! A tiny proportion of bad actors cause most of the problems and distort the social norms. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨Job Alert for Our Summer School🚨 Ein*e studentische*r Forschungsassistent*in wird für die Vorbereitung des jährlichen Summer Institutes im Juni 2025 gesucht. Angestrebter Beginn ist Februar 2025. 👇Weitere Informationen findet Ihr auf den folgenden Seiten. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/1908772/2024...
Studentische*r Forschungsassistent*in | Forschungsbereich Adaptive Rationalität
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Who falls for online misinformation? A meta-analysis on demographic and psychological factors impacting misinformation susceptibility. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... My lovely coauthors: @alantump.bsky.social Nina Ehmann, @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig, Anton Gollwitzer, @RalfKurvers 1/n
