The Psychology of Fake News

By Rainer Greifeneder, Mariela E. Jaffé, Eryn J. Newman, Norbert Schwarz. 2020

376 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fbd80a142cf02f259c1b1b10d442724244e5923c

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. David G. Rand
2. Gordon Pennycook
3. Jabin Binnendyk
4. Christie Newton
5. Morgan R. Frank
6. Nicholas C. Dias
7. J. Pierre
8. S. Michael Gaddis

Citations in the corpus

• Art and the science of generative AI (2023, background): “Pennycook and Rand address these questions by examining the role of reasoning and heuristics in people’s ability to discern truth from falsehood [99].”
• A Practical Guide to Doing Behavioral Research on Fake News and Misinformation (2020, background): “Another issue relates to whether one focuses on “discernment” (otherwise referred to as “sensitivity” or “overall accuracy”) versus “bias” (otherwise referred to as “overall belief”) (Batailler et al., 2021; Pennycook & Rand, 2021), or both (e.g., Bronstein et al., 2019).”