This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.

alice e marwick@alicetiara.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New preprint with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social: Novel social identities shape belief in true and false information In 3 exps (N = 1,459) we randomly assigned people to one of two novel groups. People trusted (and then believed claims more from) their in-group osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Stony Brook in Fall '26! My lab will take a social cognitive approach to studying how we form/update our beliefs and why we disagree about what is true vs false I'll also be reviewing grad apps! See below for more info

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion." My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making. In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

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New preprint: From vaccinations to masking, politics predicts health behaviors. In this review we discuss these differences in light of classic psychological theories of group identity and behavioral decision-making. We welcome any feedback on this working paper! osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 10 Days Until Stand Up for Science, and some HUGE NEWS! - Take Action With Us! 🚨 We’re excited to announce 32 official Stand Up for Science events happening across the country on March 7th! 🧵⬇️

In a new article now out in Collabora: Psychology, @rmpillai.bsky.social and I find that the mere repetition of information increases estimates of its consensus, a finding we refer to as an “illusory consensus effect.”

An Illusory Consensus Effect: The Mere Repetition of Information Increases Estimates That Others Would Believe or Already Know It

How do people estimate the prevalence of beliefs and knowledge among others? Here, we examine the hypothesis that mere repetition of information increases such perceptions of consensus — an “illusory ...

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S+P Psychologists, Michael Kraus put together an excellent letter calling on social and personality psychologists to meet the moment re protecting students' rights to free speech. He would love faculty signatures! If you're a PhD Student, please send this around! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Social and Personality Psychologists on Student Protests for Justice in Palestine

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