How and why do people share opinions online? In research conducted offline, the social identity of the audience is a key factor: whether they are composed of one’s ingroup or outgroup affects what people share and why. Do people behave similarly and …
There is increasing pressure on social media companies to reduce the spread of misinformation on their platforms. However, they would prefer not to be the arbiters of truth as the truth can be subjective or otherwise hard to determine. Instead, they …
Human information processing and decision making is an extremely complex topic that we can only scratch the surface of here. In general, it is shaped by all aspects of our cognition, from the lowest level (what we remember and pay attention to) to …