Our brains do marvelous things, but they also make us vulnerable to falsehoods. Why? What leads people to fall for misinformation? Why do they share it with others? And what role does psychological science play in helping us understand these dynamics?
During the recent fourth annual National News Literacy Week, the News Literacy Project and APA presented a conversation to untangle the threads in our heads and hearts that can cause us to accept and spread falsehoods, even when we should know better. In the session, social psychologist Sander van der Linden, PhD, reviewed the science of mis- and disinformationopens in new window, its impacts, and what we can do about it.
