ArticleScientific reports2021
Boosting people's ability to detect microtargeted advertising.
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- Quantifying the potential persuasive returns to political microtargeting.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Online reading habits can reveal personality traits: towards detecting psychological microtargeting.PNAS nexus · 2023Article
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Abstract
Online platforms' data give advertisers the ability to "microtarget" recipients' personal vulnerabilities by tailoring different messages for the same thing, such as a product or political candidate. One possible response is to raise awareness for and resilience against such manipulative strategies through psychological inoculation. Two online experiments (total [Formula: see text]) demonstrated that a short, simple intervention prompting participants to reflect on an attribute of their own personality-by completing a short personality questionnaire-boosted their ability to accurately identify ads that were targeted at them by up to 26 percentage points. Accuracy increased even without personalized feedback, but merely providing a description of the targeted personality dimension did not improve accuracy. We argue that such a "boosting approach," which here aims to improve people's competence to detect manipulative strategies themselves, should be part of a policy mix aiming to increase platforms' transparency and user autonomy.
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