I can neither confirm nor deny this.

📢Got a new book coming with Cambridge University Press & the almighty Jon Roozenbeek! We were going to write it under our pseudonyms F.K. News & Ron Spiracy but alas here we are, a balanced overview of the field for students, policy-makers, journo's, anyone!

Pre-order▶️: cambridge.org/us/universityp…

New paper led by Cecilie Traberg (@cecilietraberg.bsky.social) on misinformation & source effects in Scientific Reports! Huge dataset (N = 20,477) with 5 experiments on how sources affect (mis)info interpretation. Read Cecilie's thread below for more info, paper (open access) is here: doi.org/10.1038/s41598….

Excited to announce that I'll be joining King's College London's War Studies dept as a lecturer in Psychology and Security in April! I'll be working with the wonderful Professor Brooke Rogers OBE 💙 and Julia Pearce.

📢PAPER: misinformation research often uses random headlines to test people. It's the Wild Wild West of testing. Led by the brilliant Rakoen Maertens, we offer the first #AI -generated psychometrically validated; MISINFORMATION SUSCEPTIBILITY TEST (MIST)🧵

cam.ac.uk/stories/mist

Paper & MIST freely available link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Co-authored by an amazing team, including Friedrich Götz Jon Roozenbeek Hudson Golino(who contributed amazing network psychometrics) Yara Kyrychenko 🇺🇦 James He claudia pinoth John Kerr @_WPM3_Stefan Stieger & Karly Drabot

Our Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST) is finally out in Behavior Research Methods (doi.org/10.3758/s13428…)! Want to know how good you are at spotting misinformation? Take the test: yourmist.streamlit.app. See Rakoen Maertens' thread below for more info :)

Are you a senior scholar with 'strong professional networks' and 'excellent scholarly discernment'? Yes? Why don't you come work for Taylor & Francis Research Insights as an editor for Political Communication 📓 and be paid a whole $2500 per *year*? Bizarre that this is allowed. think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruit…

New editorial for Applied Cognitive Psychology together with Briony Swire-Thompson and Sander van der Linden about conspiracy theories. The special issue on conspiracies we edited (with papers by Joe Uscinski, Roland Imhoff, 🇺🇦 [email protected] and others) is open access and worth a read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990720/2…

Interested in #Conspiracy theories ? Check out the fantastic & state-of-the-art research being conducted in our latest/special issue of ACP focused on #Conspiracy theories. Organized and guest edited by Sander van der Linden Briony Swire-Thompson Jon Roozenbeek

We would love to officially welcome Dr John Cook John Cook to the MCBC! He researches how to use critical thinking to counter misinformation. Recently, he presented at our MCBC conference and at the European Parliament. See the link below for the recording 👇

NEW PAPER: We ran a field study in rural #India to fight misinfo using a new #WhatsApp inoculation game. Result? TOTAL NULL RESULTS. So important to share unsuccessful trials. Key lessons for non-WEIRD research: now out in Journal of Trial and Error led by the brilliant trisha harjani👇

New paper :) led by the completely brilliant trisha harjani in Journal of Trial and Error. In a field study in rural India (N = 757), we found that our #WhatsApp #inoculation game didn't help people better identify misinformation; See Trisha's thread for more details! journal.trialanderror.org/pub/gamified-i…

If you are attending #ICPS2023 , check out our integrative science symposium on 'anti-science beliefs and attitudes' with Myrto Pantazi ( @[email protected] ), Professor Karen Douglas, Matthew Hornsey, & Sander van der Linden / Jon Roozenbeek

New pre-print led by Charlotte Kukowski! We looked at behavioural plasticity and climate policy support, using survey data collected in the Bad News game; see Kristian Steensen Nielsen's thread below :) psyarxiv.com/zyk5s