<p>Today, we’re joined by Dr. Cecilie S. Traberg.</p><p><br></p><p>The transcript for this episode will be available the day following the original airdate.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Links/Sources mentioned</strong>:</p><ul><li><p>Dr. Traberg’s website: <a href="https://www.cecilietraberg.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.cecilietraberg.com/</a> </p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.cecilietraberg.com/solomonssecret" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Solomon’s Secret</a>, a digital murder mystery game designed to explore the psychology of misinformation and social influence </p></li><li><p>Dr. Traberg’s research:</p></li><ul><li><p>Traberg, C. S., Roozenbeek, J., &amp; van der Linden, S. (2022). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162221087936" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Psychological Inoculation against Misinformation: Current Evidence and Future Directions</a>. <em>The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science</em>, 700(1), 136–151. </p></li><li><p>Traberg, C. S., &amp; van der Linden, S. (2022). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111269" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Birds of a feather are persuaded together: Perceived source credibility mediates the effect of political bias on misinformation susceptibility</a>. <em>Personality and Individual Differences</em>, 185, 111269.</p></li><li><p>Traberg, C. S., Roozenbeek, J., &amp; van der Linden, S. (2024). <a href="https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gamified-inoculation-reduces-susceptibility-to-misinformation-from-political-ingroups/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Gamified inoculation reduces susceptibility to misinformation from political ingroups</a>. <em>Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.</em></p></li><li><p>Traberg, C. S., Harjani, T., Roozenbeek, J., &amp; van der Linden, S. (2024). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54030-y" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The persuasive effects of social cues and source effects on misinformation susceptibility</a>.<em> Scientific Reports</em>, 14(1). </p></li><li><p>Cecilie Traberg, Morten, T., &amp; van. (2024). <a href="https://doi.org/10.56296/aip00017" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Counteracting socially endorsed misinformation through an emotion-fallacy inoculation</a>. <em>Advances In/Psychology</em>, 2. </p></li></ul><li><p>Other relevant studies: </p></li><ul><li><p>Marks, J., Copland, E., Loh, E., Sunstein, C. R., &amp; Tali Sharot. (2018). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.003" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Epistemic spillovers: Learning others’ political views reduces the ability to assess and use their expertise in nonpolitical domains</a>. <em>Cognition</em>, 188, 74–84. </p></li><li><p>Hassoun, A., Beacock, I., Consolvo, S., Goldberg, B., Kelley, P. G., &amp; Russell, D. M. (2023). <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3544548.3581328" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Practicing information sensibility: How Gen Z engages with online information</a>. In <em>Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</em> (pp. 1-17).</p></li><li><p>‌Vidgen, B., Taylor, H., Pantazi, M., Anastasiou, Z., Inkster, B., &amp; Margetts, H. (2021). <a href="https://www.turing.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2021-02/misinformation_report_final1_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>Understanding vulnerability to online misinformation</em></a>. </p></li><li><p>Gawronski, B., Ng, N. L., &amp; Luke, D. M. (2023). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001381" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Truth sensitivity and partisan bias in responses to misinformation</a>. <em>Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. </em></p></li><li><p>Garrett, R. K., &amp; Bond, R. M. (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf1234" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Conservatives’ susceptibility to political misperceptions</a>. <em>Science Advances</em>, 7(23). </p></li></ul><li><p>One example of unintentionally spread misinformation: <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/black-plastic" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils </a></p></li><li><p>Some examples of (earned) distrust of institutions: </p></li><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/us-government-conspiracy-declassified-secrets" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">5 times the US government revealed secrets it tried to keep hidden</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.aamc.org/news/why-we-know-so-little-about-women-s-health" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Why we know so little about women’s health</a> </p></li><li><p><a href="https://naacp.org/resources/criminal-justice-fact-sheet" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">NAACP Criminal Justice Fact Sheet</a> </p><p><br></p></li></ul></ul><p><em>Wired For This</em> is produced and edited by Nwabata Nnani and hosted by Celia Ford. </p><p><br><em>American Scientist</em> has been in publication since 1913 and is published by the nonprofit Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society. 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