Jan

Can we trust a group of people to be right, and to be competent, simply because they agree on something? In a new paper in @CognitionJourn , @hugoreasoning @benoitdecourson and I argue that yes. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kA8Q2Hx2xLPd Come to the other place for a nice summary :)

Out in Nature Human Behaviour 🔥 Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32).

THREAD: How to check if a tweet screenshot is fake? Dozens of fake screnshots of tweets have gone viral in recently. So, here's a simple guide on how one can quickly check if a screenshot of a tweet attributed to an account is genuine or fake before falling for or sharing it.

Recently a researcher gave me a dataset, and I asked: What do the values (1,2,3,4) of this variable mean? Their response: The categories are in order in Qualtrics, so the values should be in order. Me: Are you sure about that? 😉 #alwayscheck cghlewis.com/blog/survey_da…

It's new, it's improved, it's got AI-generated explanations for why everything correlates. Today I'm launching the new Spurious Correlations: tylervigen.com/spurious-corre…

What have we done 🙈

As fears of disinformation are making their way from #davos into headlines, this new publication might be timely: In a survey-experiment @OuzhouAdi and I show that alarmist warnings against disinformation carry significant unintended negative effects. link.springer.com/article/10.100… 🧵

@ajungherr @Sacha_Altay

By exaggerating the dangers of digital communication environments for democracy, we might end up damaging the very thing we wish to protect. The stories we tell about digital media and their role in democracy and society matter. We need to choose well and choose responsibly.

Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science of @ENS_ULM @psl_univ & @EHESS_fr is currently inviting applications until March 11, 2024.

New paper out with @Prof_PhilH and @tinaseabrooke in Current Opinion in Psychology as part of a special issue on The Psychology of Misinformation‼️ Mean Rating Difference Scores are Poor Measures of Discernment: The Role of Response Criteria (doi.org/10.1016/j.cops…).

New paper from Daniel Nettle, with @ProfKEPickett, @CoralieChevall1, Eliott & Matthew Johnson "Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: The Changing Cost of Living Study" osf.io/preprints/psya…

Mindblowing. Showed this to students, they were 🤯🤯😲😲. If you haven't tried it, take 5 minutes, have a look. It's free, and we, in Hong Kong, are GPT/AI blocked, so this solves 2 major issue for students in HK wanting to leverage AI for super easy data analysis. Brilliant.

I have a new working paper on concerns about what is real and fake on the internet 😱 Relying on data from the Digital News Report, I conducted a pre-registered analysis of concerns about misinformation between 2018 to 2023 in 46 countries (N = 509,797). osf.io/preprints/psya…

Alright, 1st 1st author manuscript, elated, etc. etc., let’s get to it: We need more high-quality norms in psychology and traditional sampling and norming techniques won’t get us there. MRP can help, though! twitter.com/PsyArXiv_bot_v…

If psychological measures are used only once or twice it threatens the credibility of research @maltoesermalte, @ianhussey @taymalsalti @rubenarslan propose guidelines to ensure that psychological measures are standardized and unlike toothbrushes, reused. nature.com/articles/s4427…

THREAD: How to verify images online? Social media is awash with false or misleading images, some of which get millions of engagements. So, here's a simple guide on ways you can quickly check the veracity of an image you see on your social media feeds.

🧵 New WP 🧵 Should AI-generated content be labeled as such on social media? We show that these labels would have detrimental consequences on harmless AI content and would be less effective than false labels in preventing the spread of false news. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Daniel Nettle is looking for a grad student and a postdoc to work on his fantastic THRESHOLD project, more information there danielnettle.org.uk/2023/10/10/the…

I knew scientists were territorial but this is next level. Remember Katalin Karikó, the unsung hero of mRNA vaccines? Her advisor Robert Suhadolnik tried to have her deported when she accepted a competing offer in another lab.

Dan Ariely’s research on dishonesty presented an optimistic view of human behavior. But a group of behavioral scientists believes some of his findings were too good to be true. nyer.cm/jIT2AZu