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Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻
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Hey friends, going to share in the event others find it helpful. Like many of us, I have trauma. The last year has reminded me that ignoring trauma is not
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MTG’s statements today ignore how that “DISTRUST of gov’t & media” that led her to internet searches and “allowed her to believe things that weren’t true”... is ignited & reaffirmed
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So, when I was in college, for a short while I dated this really nice guy. Sweet guy. Musician. Nice family. Grew up on a gorgeous blueberry farm on a
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Something salient that is guiding how I’m thinking & talking about... everything in the mis/disinformation space: Radically different approaches for regular people/audiences/users than for elites/politicians/ platforms/pundits/execs 1
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One of the things we are wrestling with in the misinformation/conspiracy theory research is that counter-information ("corrective info," EMPIRICALLY TRUE FACTUAL EVIDENCE) has VERY LITTLE effect on people's beliefs when
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With interpersonal relationships, the key is to capitalize on the love and trust that exists between individual people. In my experience, playing dumb and neutral and open-hearted goes a long
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I've received several DMs from friends asking what do to about parents/family members who believe misinformation regarding the election, vaccines and COVID. Here's a research-based thread to help explain the
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Reflections on a Theme: “it’s all different when it directly affects me.” 1) Megan McCain returns to the view after maternity leave, suddenly aware of the challenge of motherhood, calls
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I find it hilarious how folks on the right pretend to view those on the left. Charlie Kirk saying that the left hates Thanksgiving... Come on. He doesn't really BELIEVE
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Never has Berger and Luckmann (1966) resonated so much as it does in the context of Trump’s current challenges to the legitimacy of our electoral system. I teach this text
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Huge respect to @BostonJoan, @kreissdaniel and @shannimcg, all brilliant researchers in the space of mis/disinformation and social media. I see this exchange as emblematic of a larger tension: How much
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Where are the explainer threads on the role of "psychological reactance" (Brehm, 1966) and COVID? Especially as we sit perched at the intersection of identity-fueled political polarization and a politicized
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