...Raunak M. Pillai; Lisa K. Fazio Recent years have seen a growing interest among academics and the public in ways to curb the spread of misinformation on social media. A recent experiment demonstrated that explanation prompts—simply asking people to explain why they think information is true...

...Hannah Buie; Alyssa Croft We introduce the Social Media Sexist Content (SMSC) database, an open-access online stimulus set consisting of 382 social media content items and 221 comments related to the content. The content items include 90 sexist posts and 292 neutral posts. The comment items include...

...Jordan Zimmerman; Angelica De Rezende; Anna M. Wright; Kaitlin M. Lord; Sarah Brown-Schmidt Social media is a routine part of every-day life for millions of people worldwide. How does engaging with social media shape enduring memories for that experience? This question is important given...

... the time they spent on active and passive social media use and their end-of-day wellbeing. Multilevel regressions indicated that more face-to-face interactions both within and outside of one’s household positively predicted wellbeing, while technology-mediated communication had less consistent positive...

...Gordon Pennycook; Jabin Binnendyk; Christie Newton; David G. Rand Coincident with the global rise in concern about the spread of misinformation on social media, there has been influx of behavioral research on so-called “fake news” (fabricated or false news headlines that are presented...

... Reddit social media reform As scientists, it can be easy to lock ourselves inside the “science bubble” and ignore how the general public perceives our work. While some researchers may see the importance of communicating findings to the public, others may argue that “research is for researchers...

... on charitable donation, as measured by hypothetical indications of donation and real donation behavior. Overall, this work demonstrates that theoretically constrained, exploratory social media analyses can be used to generate viable hypotheses, but also that such approaches should be paired with rigorous...