In the run-up to the 2020 election, people appear to have become savvier in spotting misinformation online: Clicks onto unreliable websites have declined, according to a new Stanford study published April 13 in the journal ...
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Apr 13, 2023
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Many social media users are fed-up with the divisiveness and extremism that they encounter on platforms like Twitter and Facebook. But this kind of content is more pervasive than ever. What explains the mismatch?
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Apr 10, 2023
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Floyd Jiuyun Zhang, a political economist at Stanford University, has conducted a study of the impact of the journal Nature endorsing presidential candidate Joe Biden back in 2020. In his paper published in the journal Nature ...
If it bleeds, it leads. The old newspaper adage tells us that gory headlines are good for sales. It is a tactic that tabloid newspapers have long exploited in their battle against dwindling circulation. Today's news market ...
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Mar 21, 2023
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Figuring out a lie has never been easier: forget body language or how convincing the message is, just listen to how detailed and rich the story is. This is the core of a new approach to lie detection, say researchers from ...
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Mar 20, 2023
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Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how much risk to tolerate and what sacrifices to ask your citizens to bear.
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Mar 20, 2023
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"One side can start the polarization and keep it going forever, but it takes two sides to stop it. That's why it easily arises, but it's so difficult to end," Boleslaw Szymanski said. Szymanski is the Claire & Roland Schmitt ...
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Mar 14, 2023
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Muslim judges are more likely to give lenient decisions while fasting during Ramadan, a study said Monday, contrasting to previous research suggesting that judges who have not eaten give harsher rulings.
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Mar 13, 2023
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A new global study, which takes a gender-sensitive approach, has found that a mother's educational status plays an increasingly important role in shaping their children's educational status, while the importance of the father's ...
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Mar 8, 2023
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Offering a tiny cash reward for accuracy, or even briefly appealing to personal integrity, can increase people's ability to tell the difference between misinformation and the truth, according to a new study.
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Mar 6, 2023
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