Chatbots presenting multiple viewpoints tend to be trusted more by conspiracy believers A new study finds that conspiracy believers trust balanced AI chatbots more than anyone else does. The uncomfortable question is whether that trust is earned or exploited. "A chatbot presenting multiple perspectives feels refreshingly balanced to people across the board — including those who distrust mainstream media." Shreya Dubey, University of Amsterdam Most efforts to reach people who believe in conspiracy theories hit the same wall.

Conspiracy believers trust AI chatbots that present both sides more, but experts warn about misleading balance effects.
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Exploring Meta-Reasoning Propositional Confidence in Conspiratorial Beliefs and Socio-Cognitive Polarization Abstract. Conspiracy theories have pervaded human thought across time and cultures, often emerging during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, where they influenced public behaviors and attitudes, no...

“Exploring Meta-Reasoning Propositional Confidence in Conspiratorial Beliefs and Socio-Cognitive Polarization.”
2 studies show that misplaced certainty predicts stronger conspiracy beliefs + SCP amplifies these effects. #Metacognition #ConspiracyBeliefs #OpenMind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Knowing without knowing: how false confidence shapes the world This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications collection explores the mechanisms and impact of false or misplaced confidence, and how it shapes the ...

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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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"David Rand presenting an overview of his research on correcting inaccurate beliefs using human-AI dialogues at MIT Tech Day, May 31 2025"

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Durably reducing #ConspiracyBeliefs through dialogues with AI
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Chronic unmet psychological needs are linked to stronger conspiracy beliefs A new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin has found that the connection between our basic psychological needs and belief in conspiracy theories is not static, but can shift...

Chronic unmet psychological needs are linked to stronger conspiracy beliefs #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #ConspiracyBeliefs #PsychologicalNeeds #MentalHealthAwareness

Thrilled to say that I was awarded a #Visiting #Research #Fellowship by @royalsoced.bsky.social at the University of Milano-Bicocca where I will be working with Dr Silvia Mari on developing new research projects looking into #conspiracybeliefs #politicalengagement & #collectiveactions.

Younger individuals more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs A recent study found that conspiracy beliefs slightly decrease with age. Younger individuals tend to have stronger beliefs, linked to lower self-esteem, political dissatisfaction, and a preference for activism.

A recent study found that conspiracy beliefs slightly decrease with age. Younger individuals tend to have stronger beliefs, linked to lower self-esteem, political dissatisfaction, and a preference for activism. #ConspiracyBeliefs #YoungerGeneration #Psychology #ResearchStudy #SelfEsteem

Reposting this summary of our paper investigating anti-feminism conspiracy beliefs, sexism & RMA (Study 1 was my UG Dissertation Project) #socialpsychology #conspiracybeliefs