Author

Elizabeth Weingarten

Elizabeth Weingarten

Elizabeth Weingarten is managing editor of the Behavioral Scientist and a senior associate at ideas42, one of the Behavioral Scientist’s founding partners.

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Here’s how to prevent the spread of misinformation

By: and - October 30, 2020

A version of this article originally originally appeared in the Behavioral Scientist, a magazine that examines the world through the science of human behavior. If you were trying to picture a misinformation spreader, your first step probably wouldn’t be to look in the mirror. But in our work examining the psychology of misinformation, we discovered something surprising: Not […]