Search Results - "RAND, G"

Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…Objective Fake news represents a particularly egregious and direct avenue by which inaccurate beliefs have been propagated via social media. We investigate the…”
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The promise of Mechanical Turk: How online labor markets can help theorists run behavioral experiments by Rand, David G.

“…Combining evolutionary models with behavioral experiments can generate powerful insights into the evolution of human behavior. The emergence of online labor…”
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Fake News, Fast and Slow: Deliberation Reduces Belief in False (but Not True) News Headlines by Bago, Bence, Rand, David G, Pennycook, Gordon

“…What role does deliberation play in susceptibility to political misinformation and "fake news"? The Motivated System 2 Reasoning (MS2R) account posits that…”
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Intuition, deliberation, and the evolution of cooperation by Bear, Adam, Rand, David G.

“…Humans often cooperate with strangers, despite the costs involved. A long tradition of theoretical modeling has sought ultimate evolutionary explanations for…”
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Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…Interventions that shift users attention toward the concept of accuracy represent a promising approach for reducing misinformation sharing online. We assess…”
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Habits of Virtue: Creating Norms of Cooperation and Defection in the Laboratory by Peysakhovich, Alexander, Rand, David G.

“…What explains variability in norms of cooperation across organizations and cultures? One answer comes from the tendency of individuals to internalize typically…”
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Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention by Pennycook, Gordon, McPhetres, Jonathon, Zhang, Yunhao, Lu, Jackson G., Rand, David G.

“…Across two studies with more than 1,700 U.S. adults recruited online, we present evidence that people share false claims about COVID-19 partly because they…”
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Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online by Pennycook, Gordon, Epstein, Ziv, Mosleh, Mohsen, Arechar, Antonio A., Eckles, Dean, Rand, David G.

“…In recent years, there has been a great deal of concern about the proliferation of false and misleading news on social media 1 – 4 . Academics and…”
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Self-reported willingness to share political news articles in online surveys correlates with actual sharing on Twitter by Mosleh, Mohsen, Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G

“…There is an increasing imperative for psychologists and other behavioral scientists to understand how people behave on social media. However, it is often very…”
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Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness by Jordan, Jillian J., Hoffman, Moshe, Bloom, Paul, Rand, David G.

“…In human societies, individuals who violate social norms may be punished by third-party observers who have not been harmed by the violator; this study suggests…”
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Economic games on the internet: the effect of $1 stakes by Amir, Ofra, Rand, David G, Gal, Ya'akov Kobi

“…Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offer an unprecedented opportunity to run economic game experiments quickly and inexpensively…”
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Don’t get it or don’t spread it: comparing self-interested versus prosocial motivations for COVID-19 prevention behaviors by Jordan, Jillian J., Yoeli, Erez, Rand, David G.

“…COVID-19 prevention behaviors may be seen as self-interested or prosocial. Using American samples from MTurk and Prolific (total n  = 6850), we investigated…”
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Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news by Martel, Cameron, Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…What is the role of emotion in susceptibility to believing fake news? Prior work on the psychology of misinformation has focused primarily on the extent to…”
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Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter by Mosleh, Mohsen, Pennycook, Gordon, Arechar, Antonio A., Rand, David G.

“…We investigate the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection and behavior on the social media platform Twitter, using a…”
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Inequality and visibility of wealth in experimental social networks by Nishi, Akihiro, Shirado, Hirokazu, Rand, David G., Christakis, Nicholas A.

“…Wealth inequality and wealth visibility can potentially affect overall levels of cooperation and economic success, and an online experiment was used to test…”
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Measuring exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter by Mosleh, Mohsen, Rand, David G.

“…Misinformation can come directly from public figures and organizations (referred to here as “elites”). Here, we develop a tool for measuring Twitter users’…”
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Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans by Rand, David G, Arbesman, Samuel, Christakis, Nicholas A

“…Human populations are both highly cooperative and highly organized. Human interactions are not random but rather are structured in social networks…”
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Why Do We Hate Hypocrites? Evidence for a Theory of False Signaling by Jordan, Jillian J., Sommers, Roseanna, Bloom, Paul, Rand, David G.

“…Why do people judge hypocrites, who condemn immoral behaviors that they in fact engage in, so negatively? We propose that hypocrites are disliked because their…”
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Do the Right Thing: Experimental evidence that preferences for moral behavior, rather than equity or efficiency per se, drive human prosociality by Capraro, Valerio, Rand, David G.

“…Decades of experimental research show that some people forgo personal gains to benefit others in unilateral anonymous interactions. To explain these results,…”
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The evolution of antisocial punishment in optional public goods games by Rand, David G., Nowak, Martin A.

“…Cooperation, where one individual incurs a cost to help another, is a fundamental building block of the natural world and human society. It has been suggested…”
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