Fwd: Lisa Fazio at Misinformation Speaker Series, March 6th

[David Rand]

FYI 

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From: Matthew Baum <matthe...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 3:19 PM
Subject: [fakenewssci] Lisa Fazio at Misinformation Speaker Series, March 6th
To: Combating Fake News: The Science of Misinformation <faken...@googlegroups.com>

Hi all,

Liza Fazio will be speaking at the Harvard/Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series this Wednesday, March 6th, at 2 pm. Details below. The event will be presented both in-person and virtually (via zoom; register to receive the zoom link.)

Best,

Matt

Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it?

March 6, 2024

2:00PM ET

Wexner Building – W-434 A.B. Conference Room, HKS Campus

Register

This event is part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern University.

Why can’t people just realize when something is false and then not believe it? Professor Lisa Fazio will discuss the cognitive mechanisms that make exposure to misinformation problematic, even when people should realize it is false. Laboratory studies demonstrate that people often fail to notice errors in what they read or hear. In addition, repetition increases belief in false statements. These effects of repetition occur with many different types of statements (e.g., trivia facts, news headlines, advertisements), and even when the false statement contradicts participants’ prior knowledge. I will present a series of studies demonstrating that the effects of repetition are widespread – occurring in naturalistic settings and across development. The talk will conclude by presenting findings from a large interdisciplinary, 30,600 participant megastudy designed to identify the efficacy of popular misinformation interventions. The collaborative study featured nine prominent misinformation interventions and tested their efficacy at reducing belief in and sharing of false and misleading health-related and political information.

About the Speaker:

Lisa Fazio is Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.

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