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Prosocial Design Research Compendium

Our Science Board curates and assesses emerging research on prosocial design interventions. The below compendium allows you to see which papers we have found, and how they relate to interventions in our library.

Timing matters when correcting fake news

Nadia M. Brashier, Gordon Pennycook, A. Berinsky, David G. Rand
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
January 25, 2021
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2020043118
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The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings

Gordon Pennycook, Adam Bear, Evan T. Collins, David G. Rand
Management Sciences
February 21, 2020
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3035384
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Effects of Credibility Indicators on Social Media News Sharing Intent

Waheeb Yaqub, Otari Kakhidze, Morgan L. Brockman, N. Memon, & al.
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 21, 2020
DOI:
10.1145/3313831.3376213
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Does Transparency in Moderation Really Matter?: User Behavior After Content Removal Explanations on Reddit

Shagun Jhaver, A. Bruckman, Eric Gilbert
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
November 7, 2019
DOI:
10.1145/3359252
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How Background Images Impact Online Incivility

Jinkyung Park, Vivek K. Singh
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
November 11, 2022
DOI:
10.1145/3555545
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Automated Content Moderation Increases Adherence to Community Guidelines

Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Justin Cheng, Robert West
ArXiV
October 19, 2022
DOI:
10.48550/arXiv.2210.10454
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Like, recommend, or respect? Altering political behavior in news comment sections

N. Stroud, Ashley Muddiman, Joshua M. Scacco
New Media & Society
April 20, 2016
DOI:
10.1177/1461444816642420
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Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization

Christopher A. Bail, Lisa P. Argyle, Taylor W. Brown, & al.
PNAS
August 28, 2018
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1804840115
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Content Removal as a Moderation Strategy

Kumar Bhargav Srinivasan, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Chenhao Tan
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
November 7, 2019
DOI:
10.1145/3359265
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Highlighting High-quality Content as a Moderation Strategy: The Role of New York Times Picks in Comment Quality and Engagement

Yixue Wang, Nicholas Diakopoulos
ACM Transactions on Social Computing
January 29, 2022
DOI:
10.1145/3484245
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Reconsidering Tweets: Intervening During Tweet Creation Decreases Offensive Content

Matthew Katsaros, Kathy Yang, Lauren Fratamico, Yale Law School, Twitter Inc.
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022)
December 1, 2021
DOI:
abs/2112.00773v1
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Social media governance: can social media companies motivate voluntary rule following behavior among their users?

Tom Tyler, Matt Katsaros, Tracey Meares & Sudhir Venkatesh
Journal of Experimental Criminology
December 27, 2019
DOI:
10.1007/s11292-019-09392-z
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"Did You Suspect the Post Would be Removed?": Understanding User Reactions to Content Removals on Reddit

Shagun Jhaver, Darren Scott Appling, Eric Gilbert, Amy Bruckman
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
November 7, 2019
DOI:
10.1145/3359294
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Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact‑Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media

Katherine Clayton, Spencer Blair, Jonathan Busam, Samuel Forstner, & al.
Political Behavior
December 15, 2020
DOI:
10.1007/s11109-019-09533-0
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Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking

Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden
European Review of Social Psychology
February 22, 2021
DOI:
10.1080/10463283.2021.1876983
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Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence

John Cook, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
PLoS ONE
May 5, 2017
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0175799
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The Humanizing Voice: Speech Reveals, and Text Conceals, a More Thoughtful Mind in the Midst of Disagreement

Juliana Schroeder, Michael Kardas, Nicholas Epley
Association for Psychological Sciences
October 25, 2017
DOI:
10.1177/0956797617713798
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A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

Andrew M. Guess, Michael Lerner, Benjamin Lyons, & al.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A
June 20, 2020
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1920498117
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Social Clicks: What and Who Gets Read on Twitter?

Maksym Gabielkov, Arthi Ramachandran, Augustin Chaintreau, Arnaud Legout
Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS'16
April 13, 2016
DOI:
10.1145/2896377.2901462
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Warm thanks: gratitude expression facilitates social affiliation in new relationships via perceived warmth

Williams, L. A., & Bartlett, M. Y
Emotion
January 1, 2015
DOI:
10.1037/emo0000017
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The Benefits of Cognitive Disfluency

Adam L. Alter
Current Directions in Psychological Science
November 14, 2013
DOI:
10.1177/0963721413498894
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Preventing harassment and increasing group participation through social norms in 2,190 online science discussions.

J. Nathan Matias
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A
April 29, 2019
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1813486116
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Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio Arechar, Dean Eckles, David Rand
Nature
November 13, 2019
DOI:
10.1038/s41586-021-03344-2
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