ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Emotion and humor as misinformation antidotes.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Understanding the impact of misinformation on adolescents.Nature human behaviour · 2026Review
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- Older women's perspectives on the ethics of persuasion in doctor-patient communication.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
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- Being vulnerable with viewers: Exploring how medical YouTubers communicated about COVID-19 with the public.PloS one · 2024Article
- Community-oriented Motivational Interviewing (MI): A novel framework extending MI to address COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in online social media platforms.Computers in human behavior · 2023Article
- "Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Article
- Promoting Vaccination in India through Videos: The Role of Humor, Collectivistic Appeal and Gender.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Knowing Well, Being Well: well-being born of understanding: The Urgent Need for Coordinated and Comprehensive Efforts to Combat Misinformation.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2022Article
- Misinformation about science in the public sphere.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
Many visible public debates over scientific issues are clouded in accusations of falsehood, which place increasing demands on citizens to distinguish fact from fiction. Yet, constraints on our ability to detect misinformation coupled with our inadvertent motivations to believe false science result in a high likelihood that we will form misperceptions. As science falsehoods are often presented with emotional appeals, we focus our perspective on the roles of emotion and humor in the formation of science attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. Recent research sheds light on how funny science and emotions can help explain and potentially overcome our inability or lack of motivation to recognize and challenge misinformation. We identify some lessons learned from these related and growing areas of research and conclude with a brief discussion of the ethical considerations of using persuasive strategies, calling for more dialogue among members of the science communication community.
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