nicolas fay

6/ Overall, our results suggest that truth retains a competitive edge in the marketplace of ideas, at least outside the distortions of social media algorithms and bot amplification.

5/ When participants weren’t constrained, they tended to default to writing truthful messages. But when asked to maximize attention, truth was sometimes sacrificed—though this didn’t boost sharing.

🚨 New paper out in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology! @APA_Journals We test whether true or false messages are more persuasive and more likely to spread. Across 4 experiments (N=4,607), truth consistently wins. 📄 Fay et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1037/pspa00…

@fusaroli Please be sure to come to Perth next time!!! 🙏🏻

@Nicolas_Fay Thanks, nic! I did have a couple of work and wandering in Victoria in may as secret celebration. Hope to make it to Perth next time!

It's now official that I made it to professor in cognitive science at Aarhus Uni. It's been an improbable road from a couple of academic false starts, web consultancies, journalism, communication, semiotics, complex systems, experiments, stats and modeling. 1/

Delighted to see our new #PLOSONE paper come out, led by @HowePiers: Self-certification: A novel method for increasing sharing discernment on social media dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… @UWApsych

🚨New today in @PNASNews ‼️w/ @helenmargetts: In a pre-registered experiment (n=8,587), we find little evidence that 1:1 personalization — aka microtargeting — enhances the persuasive influence of political messages generated by GPT-4.  pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…  1/7 👇🏼

🚨We are hiring! Please RT🚨 TWO (2) positions in data science/stochastic modelling/stats at @UniofAdelaide (Level B/C) -- we're super excited to be growing our team at the Adelaide Data Science Centre @UofA_SET! Happy to discuss with anyone; DMs open. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/5137…

New in Social Psychology: person-related misinformation can be effectively discounted following a clear retraction, from @amymickelberg, Bradley Walker, @UlliEcker, @HowePiers, @AndyPerfors & @Nicolas_Fay doi.org/10.1525/collab…

New essay: I argue that misinformation is often better viewed as a symptom of deep societal problems rather than their cause. When that’s true, interventions like debunking and censorship are unlikely to help – and might make things worse. (1/15) iai.tv/articles/misin…

New preprint of our chapter "Defining iconicity for the cognitive sciences": osf.io/5e3rc This is for the the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language.... was a blast to write with @greg_woodin @MarcusPerlman!

Article in PsyPost on our study looking at women's preferences for risk taking men @UWAhumanscience @CEB_UWA @DavidCoall @Nicolas_Fay @uwanews @UWAresearch @HCA_Goodman #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">psypost.org/2023/11/new-st…

New paper out with @JStubbersfield "Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

"10 things you should know about sign languages" is now published in the current issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science - still Open Access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better. PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac… AMZN: amazon.com/dp/0691224145?…