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Antonio A. Aréchar

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Behavioural Economist | Research methods, misinformation, and cooperation

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

📜 Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents 🧑‍🔬 Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook & David G. Rand et al. 📔 Nature Human Behaviour 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ (Feeds) #SciComm #ScienceCommunication

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Across 16 countries, this research finds consistent cognitive and social predictors of COVID-19 misinformation susceptibility, and shows how accuracy prompts and literacy tips reduce misinformation sh...

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 Know that influential finding that more numerate ppl are more politically biased? We did NOT replicate it in large probability sample Across 5 issues, more numeracy = more correct ans Tho political alignment DID have main effect (controlling for priors) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

New Epstein, Arechar, and Rand testing perceptions of different labels for AI-generated content psyarxiv.com/v4mfz

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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Who falls for misinformation around the globe? Individuals with high analytic cognitive style, accuracy motivations, and valuing of democracy are better at discerning misinformation from true claims. Really fascinating paper that looks at 16 countries across 6 continents.

Figure 3: Consistent cross-cultural evidence that truth discernment is associated with analytic thinking, accuracy motivations and ideology

Cross-country misinformation accuracy and sharing

Figure 6: Ratings from even small groups of laypeople can reliably distinguish true from false headlines

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Antonio A. Aréchar @arechar.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Hello World! #myfirstpost 😀

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