Psychology professor at the University of Southampton in the UK. I study memory, metacognition, and categorisation with applications to education and fake news.
Is misinformation a dangerous virus? Are we living through an infodemic? Is there a vaccine for misinformation? In this review of Sander van der Linden's (@Sander_vdLinden) new book 'Foolproof', I argue that the answer to these questions is "no". A thread:
bostonreview.net/articles/th…
What was once my master's dissertation is now published at JEP:A!
Summary: Both an inductive learning intervention we created and the Bad News game failed to improve news veracity discernment.
Publication link: doi.org/10.1037/xap0000458
Full text link: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4wfd…