Initial evidence that intellectual humility contributes to metamemory for sources of conflicting claims on the Internet

Is Information Verification Just a Matter of Intellectual Humility?

Abstract: Adolescents can be vulnerable to misinformation, facing the daily challenge of assessing false, inaccurate, or misleading news. Understanding the psychological processes contributing to this vulnerability is crucial for enhancing their information verification skills. Previous research has established a posit...

Navigating the Unknown: The Sociocultural and Metacognitive Architecture of Wisdom.

Psychological wisdom research has shifted from characterizing rare exemplars and desired outcomes to specifying processes that support sound judgment under uncertainty. Yet it has advanced along two siloed research tracks: one on folk theories-cultural tools such as exemplars, narratives, heuristics (including proverbs...

Content, Consumer, Corrections: A Neurocognitive Model of Misinformation Processing

The rapid proliferation of misinformation in digital environments poses a serious threat to public health, political institutions, and public discourse. Behavioral research has accumulated substantial evidence on why people believe and share false information, yet individual studies address cognitive biases, social fac...

Addressing demand artifacts in psychological research (and beyond)

Demand artifacts stem from participants’ beliefs about treatment effects and motivations to respond in accordance with these beliefs. These artifacts typically build on subtle cues that exert extraneous influences unbeknownst to researchers, through processes that are not part of their stated theory. Demand artifacts t...

Honesty: Conceptualization, Assessment, Prediction, and Processes

Youth Consciousness in the Virtual Environment: A SocioPhilosophical Model of the “Invisible Shield” Against Manipulation

This article develops a socio-philosophical model for protecting young people’s cognitive and moral agency in digitally mediated environments. It asks how manipulation differs from ordinary influence and which capacities allow a user to benefit from online communication without surrendering independent judgment. The st...