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SUMMARY:Misinformation and the distinct psychologies of believing and shar
 ing - Professor Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University)
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CONTACT:Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will present results from an ongoing project 
 where we seek to illuminate the psychology underlying the sharing of misin
 formation on social media. We do so by combining participants' answers on 
 longitudinal surveys (including experimental components) and their actual 
 behavior on the social media platform\, Twitter. Consistent with recent re
 search\, we find evidence that beliefs in misinformation reflect cognitive
  laziness\, which can be alleviated through brief interventions. At the sa
 me time\, however\, those who actually share misinformation on Twitter are
  more rather than less digitally literate and politically sophisticated. T
 o some extent\, they seem to know that - or do not care whether - the stor
 ies they share are fake or real. Instead\, what drives them is deep animos
 ity towards political opponents. These findings not only shed light on the
  sentiments that facilitate the circulation of false information but also 
 serve as a warning about using insights about the psychology of beliefs to
  illuminate the psychology of behavior.\n\nZoom link: https://www.psychol.
 cam.ac.uk/study/grads/grads/spss-joining-details. 
LOCATION:via zoom 
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