Seminar is open to graduate students, faculty, and staff.
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Click here for a full schedule of Fall 2021 Working Groups. All seminars are on Thursdays and run from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Every day, we encounter false claims that range from silly (e.g., We use 10% of our brains) to dangerous (e.g., Drinking bleach kills coronavirus). How do we know what to believe? In the first half of this talk, a three-part model of how people judge truth will be put forth. First, most content encountered in daily life is…
User-generated internet content changes traditional-media news when reporting is dangerous. Online posts by first-hand witnesses change the extent, tonality, and content of traditional-media news on conflict. Using variation from local internet outages, we show that there are more stories about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
