✨New Publication 📣

Moving beyond just the Global North, we analysed false beliefs related to climate change in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇵🇰🇯🇵🇮🇳🇩🇪🇫🇷🇧🇷

We found that trust in different information sources matters more than reported (online/offline) news consumption.

🔓doi.org/10.1177/146144…

Wonderful to see our review on the communication of statistics and evidence in times of crisis out. What does research tell us about the do’s and don’ts of evidence communication and underlying psychology? doi.org/10.1146/annure…

What's the economic cost of climate change? Here's the open-access link to our recent nature paper w/Maximilian Kotz Prof Anders Levermann, PhD and - finally - my own short summary below: nature.com/articles/s4158…

In our commentary for BBS, we argue that social media companies take advantage of people's tendency to attend to threats, by promoting divisive content on social media to grab people's attention. However, divisive content isn't necessarily what people want to see. Read below:

Timeless

Just out! Jakob-Moritz Eberl and I look at Covid identities in Austria. We show that positive social identities and negative out-group stereotyping developed around support or opposition to the vaccines: opinion-based affective polarization at work.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨Useful overview by superstar team! 🚨

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation nature.com/articles/s4156…

'...range of interventions designed to target users’ competences and behaviours in a variety of ways.'

Fighting #misinformation (largely)

Now published online! Check out how we can inoculate media users against polarizing content as a way to indirectly reduce affective polarization 👇
academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-ar…

Normalize focusing on work-life balance at 2 months old.

lol who did this

(Gaslighting my reader) as I have argued consistently throughout this essay,

A HKS Misinformation Review-published study by Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg, Jon Roozenbeek, and Sander van der Linden on gamified inoculation found that it reduces #misinformation susceptibility from political ingroups and outgroups. 👉 bit.ly/4dCz0km

The political polarization of climate change is a major barrier against effective climate action. In our latest research, we investigate the impact of political ideology on climate change beliefs, actions, and policy support. To read more about it, follow the link below:

Banning #smartphones in over 400 schools led to:
-decreased psychological symptoms among girls by 29%
-decreased bullying by boys and girls by 43%
-increased GPA among girls by .08 SDs
Effects were larger for girls from low SES families openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bits…

We have a new paper out in the Harvard University Shorenstein Center Misinformation Review led by the brilliant Cecilie Traberg (@cecilietraberg.bsky.social) showing;

▶️Gamified inoculation improves veracity discernment.
▶️Even when the source of the misinformation is politically congenial.

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gamifi…

Determinants of behaviour and their efficacy as targets of behavioural change interventions

New Review by Dolores Albarracín (Dolores Albarracin), Bita Fayaz-Farkhad & Javier A. Granados Samayoa

🚨FREE🚨 to access until May 17, download now!

go.nature.com/3wnjVCj