A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

Considering how things could have gone differently may reduce engagement with conspiracy theories.

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...

Imagining negative consequences of conspiracy beliefs reduced time spent engaging with conspiracy content without changing beliefs.

Motivated reasoning denotes the phenomenon that individuals are more likely to arrive at conclusions that they want to arrive at. Properly understanding this phenomenon requires at least three things:...

What if the best way to counter misinformation isn’t arguing facts, but offering better truths instead?

The State Department has shut down the office that sought to deal with misinformation and disinformation that Russia, China and Iran have been accused of spreading.

We are currently accepting submissions for a special issue on "The Psychology of Pushback: Understanding Resistance and Compliance During Democratic Decline."

Analytic thinking is reliably associated with lower belief in conspiracy theories. However, evidence for whether increasing analytic thinking can redu…