Nadia Brashier @nadiabrashier Twitter profile

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Nadia Brashier

4 years

Why do older adults share the most fake news? In a new paper in Current Directions, I argue that cognitive declines are only part of the problem. 1/13

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Nadia Brashier

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1 year

I am super excited to share that my lab is moving to @UCSanDiego this fall! We study memory, misinformation, and aging, with a focus on why young and older adults share fake news. If those topics interest you, keep an eye out - we will be recruiting at all levels!

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It’s official, ya’ll – I’m a first gen student turned faculty member! This fall, I’m joining Purdue’s Department of Psychological Sciences as an assistant professor. My lab will study memory, misinformation, and aging, with a focus on why young and older adults believe fake news.

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4 years

Is there an optimal time to correct fake news? Yes! And it’s surprising. In a new paper in PNAS, we show that providing fact-checks *after* people read headlines is more effective than supplying the same information before or during exposure. 1/10

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2 years

Are conspiracy theorists ‘lazy thinkers’? In a new paper in Current Opinion in Psychology, I argue that conspiracy theorists sometimes think too much, rather than too little. 1/8

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4 years

Compared to young adults, older adults shared nearly 7 times more links to political fake news during the 2016 U.S. election. 2/13

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3 years

I invited one of my students to bring her son to lectures, because it’s been hard to find consistent, affordable childcare. I love having him in the classroom, because he gasps in shock whenever I put up a graph. As if that isn’t enough of a gift, today they brought me this ❤️

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Interested in misinformation, memory, or aging? Come work with me at Purdue! I am recruiting my first graduate student this fall, and I want to especially encourage first-generation, low-income students to apply.

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If you know me from an academic setting, you’ve never heard my real voice. A professor warned me that my accent would make people think I was unintelligent, so I chose a classmate and copied her speech. This is how my friends and family react to my 9-5 voice lol

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3 years

I’m honored to be named a Rising Star by @PsychScience 🌟 Feeling very grateful for my nominators and all of my mentors over the years

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@PsychScience

3 years

Congratulations, APS Rising Stars! #academictwitter #psychtwitter

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2 years

After lots of delays, I landed in Newark at 3 AM after the last train to Princeton had left. The woman sitting next to me on my flight drove me, adding two hours to her own trip in the middle of the night. We exchanged numbers so I’d know that she made it home, and she sent this

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5 years

Reality show proposal: America’s Next Assistant Professor

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3 years

I see people interpreting these data as justification for using the term “first gen PhD.” The majority of PhD students do *not* have a parent with a doctorate. Coming from a family where folks hold bachelors or masters degrees ain’t oppression, y’all wild as hell

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3 years

1/ New preprint! The “Socioeconomic Roots of Academic Faculty,” with @alliecmorgan @laberge_nick @DanLarremore Mirta Galesic: We surveyed 7000 U.S. faculty from 8 disciplines to study how socioeconomic status shapes the academic workforce. 🪴 A summary:

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sponsored by Bumble

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3 years

What advice do ya’ll wish you’d gotten before teaching your first course?

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3 years

On tough days, I reread emails from my sixth grade teacher, who was the first person to treat me like a scientist. Mr. New passed away last spring, but I still try to make him proud

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5 years

Repeated claims feel truer than new ones, leaving people vulnerable to fake headlines and misleading ads. Can we prevent this illusory truth effect? Encouragingly, the answer is “yes” – check out my paper with @emmaline_drew , in press at Cognition. 1/8

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5 years

A random man emailed me an explanation of my own research today - does this mean I’ve made it?

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4 years

Compared to young adults, older adults interact with fewer ‘weak ties,’ or peripheral acquaintances. They also exhibit more interpersonal trust and are less able to spot liars. 8/13

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@nadiabrashier

3 years

I got to chat with the one and only @jvn about misinformation! Can you believe??

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

@CuriouswithJVN

3 years

Have you ever read a headline that seems just plausible enough—when you realize it’s fake? This week, Dr. @NadiaBrashier joins @jvn to discuss why we fall for fake news and what we can do about it:

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Repeated claims feel truer than new ones, leaving us vulnerable to misinformation. Does this illusion persist when the stakes are high? In my new preprint with @DG_Rand , repetition misled people even when they could earn money for correct answers. 1/7

Illusory Truth Occurs Even with Incentives for Accuracy

Fake news sites, politicians, and advertisers often make false claims believable by repeating them. Repeated statements feel easier to process, and thus truer, than new ones. In two large experiments...

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4 years

Older adults may infer that stories appearing in their timeline are credible, assuming that close friends and family wouldn’t share fake news. 9/13

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@nadiabrashier

2 years

I sleep soundly knowing that the famous professor who sexually harassed, threatened, and retaliated against me saw my name on this list

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@PsychScience

3 years

Congratulations, APS Rising Stars! #academictwitter #psychtwitter

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4 years

Compared to digital natives, older adults notice fewer manipulated photos and sponsored stories. They may also be unaware that algorithms populate their news feeds or even that sharing a story implies their agreement. 12/13

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

Told @catherineho37 that my paper was conditionally accepted at PNAS and she sent this My mentees (literally) sustain me 😭

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@nadiabrashier

5 months

Can we fight fake news without leaving people behind? In a new paper in Current Opinion in Psychology, I argue that current interventions may benefit the users who see the least misinformation to begin with. 1/8

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@nadiabrashier

2 years

Ya’ll, I am SO excited that Philip will be joining my lab as my first graduate student! 🥳

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@lephuc2704hcmc

2 years

it's been a long time since i learned about this news in feb, but this sweatshirt, gifted by my #gradschool advisor @nadiabrashier , is screaming for itself: I WILL BE A PHD STUDENT AT @GradPurdue THIS FALL, studying the role of sources in beliefs in fake news across countries!

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

With age, people also increasingly emphasize interpersonal goals (e.g., entertainment) over accuracy when communicating. As a result, older adults may click 'share' before considering a sensational headline's veracity. 10/13

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3 years

Starting out as an assistant professor during a global pandemic is hard. But my family squirreled away hard-earned money, lit candles, and prayed for this, so imma rise to the occasion

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@nadiabrashier

5 years

In a ‘post-truth world,’ how do we know what to believe? In a new paper in the Annual Review of Psychology, I argue that people infer truth from three kinds of cues. 1/6

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4 years

Interventions targeting older adults’ susceptibility to fake news should consider their shifting social goals and gaps in their digital literacy. 13/13

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

But fluency, or subjective ease of processing, remains intact. Claims feel easier to understand, and thus truer, with repetition. Older adults are no more vulnerable than young adults to this illusory truth effect. 5/13

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

It’s tempting to blame this pattern on cognitive deficits. But the processes involved in evaluating news don’t uniformly decline with age. 3/13

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@nadiabrashier

2 years

It meant a lot to my family when I got the opportunity to go to college. They planted a dogwood to mark the moment when I left - it’s in bloom now 🌸

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@nadiabrashier

5 years

How can you correct false beliefs at the Thanksgiving dinner table? I gave some concrete tips, backed by cognitive science 🦃

How to keep conspiracy theories from ruining your time with family

When done correctly, debunking can combat people’s faith in false conspiracy theories. Here's a neuroscience-backed guide to approaching your loved ones’ conspiratorial beliefs.

www.pbs.org

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@nadiabrashier

3 years

Today was my first day teaching my own course! I'm trying to channel @KristiMulthaup , whose class on the psychology of aging set me on this career path at 18. Here's to hoping I can be that professor for someone else!

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

This may be especially true for the many older adults who are newcomers to social media. Ten years ago, only 8% of people over 65 used a social media site. Today that figure is up to 40%. 11/13

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

A free preprint of our paper is available here:

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@nadiabrashier

2 years

Why is it so hard to correct misinformation? I explained why false beliefs ‘stick’ despite debunking in the @washingtonpost

Why do our brains believe lies?

Many of the decisions we make depend on accurate information, but our psychological biases and predispositions make us vulnerable to the spread of falsehoods.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

Older adults do experience episodic memory declines. This makes it difficult for them to remember whether content was previously flagged as ‘false.’ 4/13

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1 year

Celebrating @Sydney_Trask winning an IBNS early career achievement award 🎉

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4 years

In addition, older adults know a lot more facts than young adults do. They draw on this general knowledge to reject misinformation, helping them to outperform young adults in some cases. 6/13

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

Once my Uber driver (who was finishing up a master’s in psychology) explained my own paper to me I couldn’t get in a word edgewise to tell him that it was my work 🥴

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

@tressiemcphd @GregoryRSL Never led me astray! @GregoryRSL remember my dedication read “big ups to all my haters” 😂

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3 years

Maybe:Professor Brashier

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3 years

I worried about teaching for the first time in the middle of a pandemic, especially with a big class. The reviews are in, and we managed to make it fun after all

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

Misinformation about COVID-19 spread as rapidly as the virus itself. Older adults share the most fake news on social media and are also at the greatest risk of dying from coronavirus. How can we intervene? Check out my first op-ed in the @latimes

Op-Ed: Older people spread more fake news, a deadly habit in the COVID-19 pandemic

Cognitive decline doesn't fully explain why older adults click share. Social changes and digital illiteracy also play a role.

www.latimes.com

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@nadiabrashier

3 years

university: we love your timely work on fake news 😍 same university: we make it so hard for you to spend your own money that your experiments on Russian misinformation will be outdated by the time you can run them 🤠

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

Clearly cognitive declines cannot fully explain older adults’ engagement with fake news. What other factors leave them vulnerable? Social changes in late adulthood could lead older adults to share questionable content. 7/13

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4 years

@GregoryRSL @tressiemcphd A-town fitted, who but me 😂😂😂 I’m mad you had a screenshot of this ready to go

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@nadiabrashier

3 years

Please don’t compare me to JD Vance. I made it to the Ivy League from Appalachia - that man is from a suburb in Ohio

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@nadiabrashier

3 years

the schools I eventually did my PhD and post doc at 💪🏻

What We Watch ™

@mspeacherino

3 years

what college did y’all get a rejection letter from?

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3 years

I am so lucky to have @DG_Rand as a collaborator and second mentor He threw a party to celebrate my new job and his twins even made me a sign 😭

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@nadiabrashier

3 years

Ya’ll, one of my first-gen, low-income students needs help. Naomi and her mom were evicted in 2019. Naomi’s name was added to the eviction judgment, though she was never on the lease. This hurts her ability to lease and her credit now, as a Harvard student.

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3 years

Chatted with an older woman outside an ice cream shop and she offered to be the first participant in my first experiment as a professor 🍦

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@nadiabrashier

4 years

I made my first live TV appearance yesterday! It was fun to talk about conspiracy theories with @FemiOke @rameshmedia and @transform6789 The @AJStream segment is available here for anyone who wants to watch

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4 years

Older adults share the most fake news and also vote at the highest rate. As the election approaches, can we reduce their vulnerability to misinformation? Read about my work, as well as a promising new @mediawise intervention, in the @nytimes

Getting Wise to Fake News (Published 2020)

Older adults are particularly vulnerable to misinformation on social media. But resources have emerged to help them learn to discern true from false.

www.nytimes.com

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@nadiabrashier

11 months

@ShaiDavidai Can I ask - what was your intention in showing to ‘friends in hiring committees,’ if not retaliation?

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4 years

Older adults share up to 7 times more fake news than young adults. If your intuitive response is ‘ok boomer,’ read coverage of my new work in @rollingstone . Science points to reasons that may surprise you.

New Research Explains Why Boomers Share So Much Fake News

Older Americans have long been known to share more fake news. New research explores why they do.

www.rollingstone.com

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@nadiabrashier

3 years

Submitted grades so I’m officially done with my first semester on the tenure track 🤪 Big ups to my amazing TAs @HaileyA123 and @bushinski_ak without whom I would have perished lol

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5 years

New headshots thanks to the very talented @angelaeckim In the style of academics everywhere, I’ll be using this photo until I’m 61.5 years old

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2 years

So far, five Princeton undergrads have asked me what my major is lol

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4 years

Harvard asked students to vacate campus by Sunday and now my first-gen, low income mentees are scrambling to access storage and flights

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@nadiabrashier

3 years

@ekadamer Girl you have a black emoji in your display name, an MLK quote as your pinned tweet, and you said ‘I’m siding with minorities almost always’ don’t try to go back and forth with me, you do NOT have the range. You lost a customer, take the L

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How can you tell the difference between credible news and misinformation? I gave some tips to the @washingtonpost It was so much fun to chat about fake news with @NavigatingNikki , as well as to hear @jimmekaanderson 's advice!

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5 years

Got a paper accepted with minor revisions on my birthday 🥳

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3 years

Marked the transition from postdoc to professor in Atlanta with my oldest friends, thanks Pfizer ☺️

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3 years

just submitted my first grant proposal as faculty

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4 years

Why do people latch onto conspiracy theories? I explained why repeatedly seeing conspiratorial ideas increases their appeal in @KnowableMag @GordPennycook @Sander_vdLinden @Karen_Douglas @JoeUscinski @Nlrosenblum also offered their expertise

The enduring allure of conspiracies

knowablemagazine.org

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@nadiabrashier

3 years

In the aftermath of these initial attacks on Ukraine, be mindful of the news that you share. We’ve already seen photos from Syria’s civil war being misrepresented as images from Donbas. Consider whether sources are credible and if images have been taken out of context.

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2 years

Thus, encouraging conspiracy theorists to think harder about their beliefs could unintentionally push them further down rabbit holes (e.g., by prompting them to retrieve more information from low-quality sources). 7/8

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4 months

Said it in October and I’ll say it again - free Palestine. Hopefully I’ll see some of ya’ll at the UCSD encampment, I’ll be there this afternoon in solidarity with our students

Nadia Brashier

@nadiabrashier

11 months

I don’t have tenure, but imma say it anyways because many students wish they could speak up: We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. In ten years, I won’t have to ask myself where I stood while genocide happened.

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Shout out to @DG_Rand for reanalyzing published datasets for us, and thank you to @Briony_Swire and @andyguess for sharing your data!

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I don’t have tenure, but imma say it anyways because many students wish they could speak up: We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. In ten years, I won’t have to ask myself where I stood while genocide happened.

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2 months

not to be dramatic but logging into concur makes me want to go back in time and un-get these degrees and this job

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3 years

If you want to be more intentional in recruiting, retaining, and supporting first gen, low income students, tune in for some of my mentoring tips tomorrow 😊

NozariLab@IU

@NozariL

3 years

Join @WomenInCogSci mentoring event @Psychonomic_Soc 2021 on Thursday Nov 4, at 4 pm CDT with this fabulous line up. @ShinnCunningham @nadiabrashier @cmuneurosci @KristiMulthaup @KateArrington

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Understanding when elaboration and cognitive effort may backfire is key, since conspiracy theories undermine elections, threaten the environment, and harm human health. 8/8

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5 years

I couldn’t go to SfN, so @prestonthakral brought this gem back for me ☺️🧠

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3 years

the Southern urge to tell open science bros that their cornbread ain’t done in the middle

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3 years

Excited to see our review (led by @UlliEcker ) in print 🤩

Nature Reviews Psychology

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3 years

'The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction', a Review by @UlliEcker , @STWorg , @johnfocook , @PhilippMSchmid , @lkfazio , @nadiabrashier , @Kendeou , @ekvraga & @commscholar

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‘Sorry for the slow response! I’m setting up my lab for the second time in two years, with no deferral either time! The first time was during covid! Aging in dog years, Nadia’

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3 years

My students graduated from Harvard today, and I couldn’t be prouder 😭 (Yes, those are matching @theestallion shirts)

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4 years

Regardless of what the media might say, we marched peacefully all the way to Boston Common

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2 years

At first blush, it seems like conspiracy theorists don’t think hard enough about the information in front of them. On average, they exhibit lower cognitive ability, think less analytically, use more heuristics, and report other ‘weird’ beliefs (e.g., in the paranormal). 3/8

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Media literacy tips (e.g., be skeptical of catchy headlines) can improve people’s ability to discern fake from mainstream news. @andyguess described benefits that persisted three weeks after intervention.

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This is personal for me — riot police arrested and beat some of my students. I would still welcome a chance to talk to admin, as a professor who visited the encampment and as a scientist whose research balances safety and protected first amendment rights

UCSD Faculty Attempt to Deliver Two Petitions to Chancellor Khosla | The Triton

On May 16 at 1:00 p.m. approximately 15 UCSD faculty members met outside of Seventh College’s The Bistro dining hall in order to deliver two petitions condemning the police response to the Gaza...

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This weekend, I got to cheer on @jvn while he did gymnastics and stand-up comedy 🤸🏻 Didn’t think I could laugh harder than I did while recording our episode of @CuriouswithJVN - I was wrong 😭

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The CEO of Prolific, ya’ll 🥴 I’m gonna stick to MTurk

Ekaterina Damer, PhD

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3 years

@SwipeWright @tage_rai Tage, I want to believe you and I'm siding with minorities almost always. But this is starting to sound like paranoia.

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I’m 5’11,” so when male scientists condescend to me, I just reply ‘you can’t talk down to me from that height’ lmao

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3 years

Being science famous is like being hood rich, I will not be elaborating further at this time

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2 years

How can we reconcile these seemingly contradictory findings? I argue that cognitive effort fluctuates across stages of conspiratorial ideation: rejecting a mainstream explanation, accepting an alternative account as plausible, seeking out evidence, and resisting corrections. 6/8

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3 years

YOU assumed because I’m at Harvard, I’m someone to play with. You can take the girl out the honky tonk, but you can’t take the honky tonk out the girl

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@nadiabrashier I'm sorry that you feel this way. You're making a lot of assumptions about me, which is neither helpful nor kind.

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I chaired my first program! If you’re @APAconvention , join me and the rest of @APADivision3 for exciting sessions on metacognition, misinformation, cognitive aging, and false memory!

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I'm excited that @CBSNews covered our recent work! But I was surprised that they didn't interview us directly. Seems like it would be good for media covering scientific studies to ask the scientists behind the work, no?

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4 years

I got all set up to present to @DG_Rand ’s lab, then realized the talk’s tomorrow 🥴 who else needs a 57 week nap

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Nadia Brashier

@nadiabrashier

2 years

But conspiracy theorists *do* consider accuracy – by definition, they reject the mainstream explanation of an important event as ‘false,’ often in favor of a more complex account. 4/8

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Nadia Brashier

@nadiabrashier

2 years

In addition, they expend considerable effort seeking out ‘evidence’ for their beliefs, from misapplications of physics to impossible diagrams. For example, flat Earthers argue that an ice rim at the edge of the world keeps us all from slipping off. 5/8

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Nadia Brashier

@nadiabrashier

8 months

When tackling a tough problem, we often rely on past experiences. Does easily remembering solutions lead us to overestimate our abilities? In my latest paper, retrieval fluency made people feel prepared for crises like shark attacks and plane crashes. 1/7

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Nadia Brashier

@nadiabrashier

2 years

Both belief in and concern about conspiracy theories are currently high. Google Trends data reveal recent spikes in searches containing the term ‘conspiracy theory’ amid misleading claims about COVID, QAnon, and election fraud. 2/8

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Nadia Brashier

@nadiabrashier

4 years

All research assistants should receive pay or course credit (only certain students can afford to ‘volunteer’), and their labor should be well-paid. This is a hill I will die on.

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