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Citizens Versus the Internet: Confronting Digital Challenges With Cognitive Tools by Kozyreva, Anastasia, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Hertwig, Ralph

“…The Internet has evolved into a ubiquitous and indispensable digital environment in which people communicate, seek information, and make decisions. Despite…”
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Low replicability can support robust and efficient science by Lewandowsky, Stephan, Oberauer, Klaus

“…There is a broad agreement that psychology is facing a replication crisis. Even some seemingly well-established findings have failed to replicate. Numerous…”
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Rational Irrationality: Modeling Climate Change Belief Polarization Using Bayesian Networks by Cook, John, Lewandowsky, Stephan

“…Belief polarization is said to occur when two people respond to the same evidence by updating their beliefs in opposite directions. This response is considered…”
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Fearing the disease or the vaccine: The case of COVID-19 by Karlsson, Linda C., Soveri, Anna, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Karlsson, Linnea, Karlsson, Hasse, Nolvi, Saara, Karukivi, Max, Lindfelt, Mikael, Antfolk, Jan

“…As studies indicate that people perceive COVID-19 as a threatening disease, the demand for a vaccine against the disease could be expected to be high. Vaccine…”
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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens by Kozyreva, Anastasia, Wineburg, Sam, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Hertwig, Ralph

“…Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of…”
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Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media by Lewandowsky, Stephan, Jetter, Michael, Ecker, Ullrich K. H.

“…Social media has arguably shifted political agenda-setting power away from mainstream media onto politicians. Current U.S. President Trump’s reliance on…”
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Unwillingness to engage in behaviors that protect against COVID-19: the role of conspiracy beliefs, trust, and endorsement of complementary and alternative medicine by Soveri, Anna, Karlsson, Linda C, Antfolk, Jan, Lindfelt, Mikael, Lewandowsky, Stephan

“…We investigated if people's response to the official recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with conspiracy beliefs related to COVID-19, a…”
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Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence by Cook, John, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Ecker, Ullrich K H

“…Misinformation can undermine a well-functioning democracy. For example, public misconceptions about climate change can lead to lowered acceptance of the…”
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The Role of Familiarity in Correcting Inaccurate Information by Swire, Briony, Ecker, Ullrich K. H, Lewandowsky, Stephan

“…People frequently continue to use inaccurate information in their reasoning even after a credible retraction has been presented. This phenomenon is often…”
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The role of conspiracist ideation and worldviews in predicting rejection of science by Lewandowsky, Stephan, Gignac, Gilles E, Oberauer, Klaus

“…Among American Conservatives, but not Liberals, trust in science has been declining since the 1970's. Climate science has become particularly polarized, with…”
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The pivotal role of perceived scientific consensus in acceptance of science by Lewandowsky, Stephan, Gignac, Gilles E., Vaughan, Samuel

“…Although most experts agree that CO 2 emissions are causing anthropogenic global warming (AGW), public concern has been declining. One reason for this decline…”
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: the Oxford coronavirus explanations, attitudes, and narratives survey (Oceans) II by Freeman, Daniel, Loe, Bao S, Chadwick, Andrew, Vaccari, Cristian, Waite, Felicity, Rosebrock, Laina, Jenner, Lucy, Petit, Ariane, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Vanderslott, Samantha, Innocenti, Stefania, Larkin, Michael, Giubilini, Alberto, Yu, Ly-Mee, McShane, Helen, Pollard, Andrew J, Lambe, Sinéad

“…Our aim was to estimate provisional willingness to receive a coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine, identify predictive socio-demographic factors, and,…”
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The association between vaccination confidence, vaccination behavior, and willingness to recommend vaccines among Finnish healthcare workers by Karlsson, Linda Cecilia, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Antfolk, Jan, Salo, Paula, Lindfelt, Mikael, Oksanen, Tuula, Kivimäki, Mika, Soveri, Anna

“…Information and assurance from healthcare workers (HCWs) is reported by laypeople as a key factor in their decision to get vaccinated. However, previous…”
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Conspiratory fascination versus public interest: the case of ‘climategate’ by Lewandowsky, Stephan

“…Anderegg and Goldsmith (2014 Environ. Res. Lett. 9 054005) use Google Trends to examine the impact of specific media events?the so-called 'climategate'…”
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Control of information in working memory: Encoding and removal of distractors in the complex-span paradigm by Oberauer, Klaus, Lewandowsky, Stephan

“…The article reports four experiments with complex-span tasks in which encoding of memory items alternates with processing of distractors. The experiments test…”
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The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction by Ecker, Ullrich K. H., Lewandowsky, Stephan, Cook, John, Schmid, Philipp, Fazio, Lisa K., Brashier, Nadia, Kendeou, Panayiota, Vraga, Emily K., Amazeen, Michelle A.

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Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation by Lewandowsky, Stephan, Yesilada, Muhsin

“…We report the results of a preregistered study that tested the effectiveness of inoculating participants against Islamophobic and radical-Islamist…”
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Boosting people’s ability to detect microtargeted advertising by Lorenz-Spreen, Philipp, Geers, Michael, Pachur, Thorsten, Hertwig, Ralph, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Herzog, Stefan M.

“…Online platforms’ data give advertisers the ability to “microtarget” recipients’ personal vulnerabilities by tailoring different messages for the same thing,…”
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Reminders and Repetition of Misinformation: Helping or Hindering Its Retraction? by Ecker, Ullrich K.H., Hogan, Joshua L., Lewandowsky, Stephan

“…People frequently rely on information even after it has been retracted, a phenomenon known as the continued-influence effect of misinformation. One factor…”
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Publisher Correction: Low replicability can support robust and efficient science by Lewandowsky, Stephan, Oberauer, Klaus

“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper…”
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