Katarzyna Bobrowicz, Areum Han, Jennifer Hausen, Samuel Greiff
Aiding Reflective Navigation in a Dynamic Information Landscape: A Challenge for Educational Psychology
Frontiers in psychology
digital spread misinformation one leading threats democracy public health global economy popular strategies mitigating misinformation include crowdsourcing machine learning media literacy programs require social media users classify news binary terms either true false however research peer influence suggests framing decisions binary terms amplify judgment errors limit social learning whereas framing decisions probabilistic terms reliably improve judgments preregistered experiment compare online peer networks collaboratively evaluated veracity news communicating either binary probabilistic judgments exchanging probabilistic estimates news veracity substantially improved individual group judgments effect eliminating polarization news evaluation contrast exchanging binary classifications reduced social learning maintained polarization benefits probabilistic social learning robust participants education gender race income religion partisanship