Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Large: Multi-Disciplinary Analyses of the Nature and Spread of Unsubstantiated Information Online

美国人需要可靠的信息来做出能够改善国家安全、公共卫生、社区复原力、经济竞争力和生活质量的决策。在线媒体平台使有关这些主题的错误信息以前所未有的速度和规模传播成为可能。为了对抗错误信息的有害影响，了解它是如何传播的以及人们相信它的条件是很重要的。这个跨学科的项目研究了这些动态，这些动态有可能帮助人们做出更好的决定，什么样的信息将帮助他们做出更好的决定。研究设计集中在不同的错误信息呈现方式如何影响人们的态度，信仰，和社会身份。该设计将展示心理倾向、道德价值观、社会文化态度、社会认同、群体亲和力和其他因素如何影响谁相信错误信息，谁拒绝或忽视它。该项目还研究了网络结构如何塑造错误信念的传播位置和传播方式。该项目的研究将被广泛传播，以帮助学者、政策专家和社交媒体设计师创造更多的环境，使更多的人能够根据准确的事实做出决定。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Americans need reliable information to make decisions that can improve national security, public health, community resilience, economic competitiveness, and quality of life. Online media platforms make it possible for misinformation on these topics to spread with unprecedented speed and scale. To counter the deleterious effects of misinformation, it is important to understand how it spreads and the conditions under which people believe it. This interdisciplinary project examines these dynamics in ways that have the potential to help people make better decisions about what kinds of information will help them make better decisions.The research design focuses on how different ways of presenting misinformation affect people’s attitudes, beliefs, and social identities. The design will show how psychological predispositions, moral values, sociocultural attitudes, social identity, group affinities and other factors influence who believes misinformation -- and who rejects or ignores it. The project also examines how network structures shape where and how false beliefs spread. The project’s research will be broadly disseminated to help scholars, policy experts, and social media designers create more contexts that empower more people to base their decisions on accurate facts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.