Abstract. Although conspiracy beliefs are often viewed as resistant to correction, recent evidence shows that personalized, fact-based dialogues with a lar

Back at his alma mater, he’s making headlines for groundbreaking research melding AI, psychology, economics, poli sci, and more

Back at his alma mater, he’s making headlines for groundbreaking research melding AI, psychology, economics, poli sci, and more

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02438-zStagnaro et al. compare nine opt-in participant samples on measures of response validity, representativeness and professionalism. They find substantial variation across samples and offer guidance for choosing samples based on the research question.

The Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) has chosen a study led by Cornell researchers as its publication of the year.

Despite decades of research, the conditions under which punishment promotes cooperation remain unclear. Through an integrative experiment varying 14 design parameters of public goods games across 360 experimental conditions (147,618 decisions from 7100 ...

Research shows that the key is to clearly explain relevant facts. That isn’t always easy to do.

Research on misinformation has expanded rapidly over the past decade. This review examines areas of consensus and contention within the literature on misinforma

Given that health-based misinformation can cause serious harm, designing effective interventions is paramount. Recently, misinformation interventions that target a source's relevant expertise have sh....

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...

Conspiracy theory beliefs are notoriously persistent. Influential hypotheses propose that they fulfill important psychological needs, thus resisting counterevidence. Yet previous failures in correctin...

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Abstract. This study investigates how the number and labeling of response categories in survey scales affect respondent behavior, psychometric properties,