Jay Van Bavel, PhD

jayvanbavel.bsky.social

11 September 2026 07:57

Misinformed and polarized beliefs often persist despite repeated fact-checking efforts. Why? New research finds that updating our trust in sources is resistant to fact-checking and is undermined by partisan source cues and politically-incongruent fact-checks osf.io/preprints/ps...

Naomi Oreskes

naomioreskes.bsky.social

11 September 2026 07:57

Excited to be part of this conversation on business, regulation, and why voluntary sustainability efforts have (with rare exceptions) failed: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Brendan Nyhan

brendannyhan.bsky.social

11 September 2026 07:55

Extremely impressive field experiment by @nmalhotra.bsky.social et al. had few effects on election attitudes among conservatives in TX despite being "exposed to an average of 20 online videos, 18.5 cable TV videos, 23.9 display ads, 3 text messages, and 3 postcards" www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Zahra Rahmani

zah-rahmani.bsky.social

11 September 2026 07:54

Most people sought confirmatory information. This consolidated and reinforced policy evaluations. Post-sampling, attitudinal polarization increased. Yes, the two countries are cherrypicked, but the pattern is similar in all countries, see for yourself here: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1...

Zahra Rahmani

zah-rahmani.bsky.social

11 September 2026 07:54

[As promised some details on our new preprint] What happens when people freely choose information about climate policies? For 4 climate food policies, participants from 15 countries from the Global South and North sampled arguments: either for or against the policy, or unrelated trivia.