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The impact of misinformation presented during jury deliberation on juror memory and decision-making [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyWhen deliberating, jurors may introduce misinformation that may influence other jurors’ memory and decision-making. In two studies, we explored the impact of misinformation exposure during jury deliberation. Participants in both studies read a transcript
Hayley J. Cullen +10 more
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The different forms of COVID-19 misinformation and their consequences [PDF]
, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, an understanding of the structure and organization of beliefs in pandemic conspiracy theories and misinformation becomes increasingly critical for addressing the threat posed by these dubious ideas.
Stoler, Justin +3 more
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Breaking Harmony Square: A game that “inoculates” against political misinformation
, 2020 We present Harmony Square, a short, free-to-play online game in which players learn how political misinformation is produced and spread. We find that the game confers psychological resistance against manipulation techniques commonly used in political ...
van der Linden, Sander, Roozenbeek, Jon
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Propaganda, misinformation, and histories of media techniques [PDF]
, 2021 This essay argues that the recent scholarship on misinformation and fake news suffers from a lack of historical contextualization. The fact that misinformation scholarship has, by and large, failed to engage with the history of propaganda and with how ...
Christopher Anderson
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Breast cancer prevention and treatment misinformation on Twitter: An analysis of two languages
Digital Health, 2023 Objective To determine the prevalence and types of misinformation on Twitter related to breast cancer prevention and treatment; and compare the differences between the misinformation in English and Malay tweets.
Izzati Yussof +5 more
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Partisan asymmetries in exposure to misinformation
Scientific Reports, 2022 Online misinformation is believed to have contributed to vaccine hesitancy during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting concerns about social media’s destabilizing role in public life.
Ashwin Rao +2 more
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Different types of COVID-19 misinformation have different emotional valence on Twitter
Big Data & Society, 2021 The spreading of COVID-19 misinformation on social media could have severe consequences on people's behavior. In this paper, we investigated the emotional expression of misinformation related to the COVID-19 crisis on Twitter and whether emotional ...
Marina Charquero-Ballester +3 more
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False memory ≠ false memory: DRM errors are unrelated to the misinformation effect [PDF]
, 2013 The DRM method has proved to be a popular and powerful, if controversial, way to study 'false memories'. One reason for the controversy is that the extent to which the DRM effect generalises to other kinds of memory error has been neither satisfactorily ...
Lambert, K. +11 more
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Internet Policy Review, 2023 This article delves into the diverse and complex nature of conceptualising misinformation as an object of research, highlighting the interdisciplinary scholarship in this field that results in varied and sometimes conflicting definitions.
Jing Zeng, Scott Babwah Brennen
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Identifying patterns to prevent the spread of misinformation during epidemics
, 2021 This paper discusses patterns of public health misinformation observed during infectious disease epidemics. Specifically, we group epidemic-related misinformation into four categories: transmission, prevention, treatment, and vaccination.
Oladeji, O., Nsoesie, E.O.
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