The internet might seem like a convenient culprit driving recent attention and concerns about misinformation, but pointing fingers exclusively at the digital age is narrow and limiting. Misinformation ...

The misinformation effect describes how exposure to inaccurate or leading post-event information can alter an eyewitness’s recollection of an original event. Memory is inherently reconstructive, ...

Misinformation has become an epidemic in the Internet age. It undermines interpersonal trust, acerbates political polarization, threatens social order, and creates fear and uncertainty. The damaging ...

Misinformation can lead to socially detrimental behavior, which makes finding ways to combat its effects a matter of crucial public concern. A new paper by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy ...

As practising oncologists, we've seen firsthand how a cancer diagnosis changes the way patients engage with information.

It is hard to escape false information in the modern world. People throw out beliefs that fly in the face of established science or contradict verified events on social media, in the mainstream media, ...

Researchers have long known about a phenomenon called the hostile media effect — the perception by people that the media is prejudiced against them. But researchers are now studying what they call the ...

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into everyday life, Ophir is uncovering how false and misleading ...

In this chapter, we examine the impacts of misinformation about science with the aim of understanding those that most warrant intervention to prevent harm to individuals, communities, and society.

Effective population level vaccination campaigns are fundamental to public health. Countercampaigns, which are as old as the first vaccines, can disrupt uptake and threaten public health globally.