Now live: “People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines” by Sean Guo, Yiwen Zhong, and Xiaoqing Hu misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/peop...

Sharing our new paper here! People talk about how deepfakes propel us into the post truth era, and we provide some empirical evidence for this: “People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines”

People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines | HKS Misinformation Review

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) allows rapid creation of AI-synthesized images. In a pre-registered experiment, we examine how properties of AI-synthesized images influence belief in m...

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Does AI improve or undercut academic scholarship? A new study finds that academics who use AI increased both the quantity & quality of their academic scholarship and it appears to reduces inequality (helping junior and non-english speaking scholars the most). arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02408

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊 Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social

APA Journals@apajournals.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Why #misinformation must not be ignored - A new, open access article by @ulliecker.bsky.social and colleagues, published in American Psychologist bit.ly/4pJ20fY

Happy to share our new research on AI-generated visual misinformation - we find that specific media literacy tips about AI images improve misinformation discernment over general tips about fake news. Feedback and comments welcome! doi.org/10.1186/s412... #psychsky #phdsky

Specific media literacy tips improve AI-generated visual misinformation discernment - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Images generated using artificial intelligence (AI) have become increasingly realistic, sparking discussions and fears about an impending “infodemic” where we can no longer trust what we see on the in...

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Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought. THREAD🧵

Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios. In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Short version: It didn't really work.

Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasi...

From some MIT Media Lab folks... "Results show that AI interaction significantly boosts participants’ accuracy in identifying real versus fake news content from approximately 60% to 90%." Though findings suggest AI interaction "may not produce lasting improvements that transfer to novel examples".

Can dialogues with AI systems help humans better discern visual misinformation?

The widespread emergence of manipulated news media content poses significant challenges to online information integrity. This study investigates whether dialogues with AI about AI-generated images and...

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Excited to share my first first-author paper! We found that providing alternative explanations to misinformation improved recollection during veracity judgements, measured by the P300 ERP. Thanks to my supervisor and colleagues for their help! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #phdsky #psych

Providing an alternative explanation improves misinformation rejection and alters event-related potentials during veracity judgements

The continued influence effect of misinformation (CIE) occurs when misinformation affects memory and decision making even after correction. Here, we e…

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Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful

🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,537,491!

How are y’all keeping updated with the latest postdoc openings? Any good site or feed recs? #phdsky

Perhaps unsurprising given I research misinfo interventions, but I strongly disagree with this article. If you thought that small tweaks were going to fix the misinfo problem, then yes, you'll be disappointed. But, come on, we all know there is no magic bullet. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...

Even Disinformation Experts Don’t Know How to Stop It

Researchers have learned plenty about misinformation and how it spreads. But they’re still struggling to figure out how to stop it.

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A typology of successful misinformation interventions: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation - Nature Human Behaviour

Kozyreva et al. review evidence from individual-level interventions for fighting online misinformation featured in 81 scientific papers. They classify the interventions in nine different types and sum...

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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, led by the amazing Anastasia Kozyreva. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation - Nature Human Behaviour

Kozyreva et al. review evidence from individual-level interventions for fighting online misinformation featured in 81 scientific papers. They classify the interventions in nine different types and sum...

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I am advertising a postdoc position to work on a cognitive psych project on misinformation 👇 Please share! external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Excited to share our new preprint on how different properties of AI-generated images impacts misinformation belief. All feedback and comments welcome :) Shout out to @brionyswire.bsky.social for providing great comments on the manuscript! osf.io/2p64a

How many stories of “automated systems” and AI end up just being people in other countries paid peanuts to work remotely?

Dr. Kahneman’s research debunked the notion of “homo economicus,” the “economic man” who was considered a rational being who acts out of self-interest. Instead, people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often go against their own best interest. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90

He found that people rely on shortcuts that often lead them to make wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest.

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where are the other Phd students here on #bluesky? #phdsky #academia ? 😭 I can't be going through this alone

In case you missed it last week, here's a recording of my talk "Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it?" See what we found in our giant collaborative megastudy testing 9 different online misinformation interventions! shorensteincenter.org/new-event/mi...

Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it? | Shorenstein Center

This event was part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern Univ...

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This was shared quite a bit as a preprint, and now it's published! (and #OA) “What will you do after?”: Lessons from Academia and the World Beyond I am glad QJEP appreciated the benefit of publishing this at a psych society journal (rather than an HE one) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Christopher Madan@engra.me · 3y ago

What might you do after a PhD? I interviewed 53 people and mapped out career paths (Interviews are themselves available too!) osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence #CogSci

Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...

Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

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At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, the truth is that errors in science are largely brought to light by unpaid volunteers. I wrote about a new program that wants to shake up those incentives and pay sleuths cold, hard cash for finding mistakes. www.chronicle.com/article/want...

Wanted: Scientific Errors. Cash Reward.

At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, a new program hopes to encourage the detection of mistakes with cold, hard cash.

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Apologies for the malfunction. I'm now able to handle abstract-length titles. Please refrain from using abstract-length titles though.

Always assumed that younger generations get better with tech, and never thought we would be hearing about students getting worse at basic computer skills like where a file is stored (!) Wonder how this affects future media and misinfo consumption? www.theverge.com/22684730/stu... #psychology

Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever

Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z

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