The Relationship Between Uncertainty and Affect
This article discusses uncertainty as a fundamental aspect of human life and how uncertainty is linked to both positive and negative affect.
Addressing Viral Medical Rumors and False or Misleading Information
This article includes case studies of organizations’ efforts to combat medical misinformation around COVID-19 and vaccines.
Fighting Misinformation with Psychological Science
This video is a panel discussion including several leading researchers on the psychology of misinformation.
A scoping review of digital health interventions for combating COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation
A review of scientific literature that evaluates the impact and reliability of digital health interventions as a means to mitigate the spread and effects of COVID-19 misinformation.
Tackling Misinformation: A Three-Pronged Approach
This NIH article details methods that health professionals and organizations can employ to not only combat the spread of misinformation, but to proactively prepare for future instances.
Building Trust to Overcome Misinformation
This article from Academy Health reviews research and surveys demonstrating the profound ways in which public lack of trust in medical institutions, doctors, and government exacerbated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fighting fake news in the classroom
This article, from the American Psychological Association magazine: Monitor on Psychology, provides examples of how psychology educators teach their students to critically examine information and combat the spread of misinformation.
Misinformation and Disinformation
This collection of resources is centered around the psychological science behind the creation and spread of misinformation.
Is that a fact? The lure of health and wellness misinformation
This resource is a Is that a fact? podcast episode from the News Literacy Project focused on ‘the lure’ of misinformation, especially related to health.
Prevent the spread of misinformation
These articles introduce the concept of misinformation and offer background pertaining to the history of misinformation as well as the role health care professionals play in counteracting it.