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Bode, L., Vraga, E. K., & Tang, R. (2023). User Correction. Current Opinion in Psychology, 101786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101786 This paper reviews the existing literature on user correction to consider its value for combating misinformation on social media. We discuss the effectiveness of user correction in reducing misperceptions, and synthesize best practices, highlighting the dual audiences for […]

Jones, G. M., Vraga, E. K., Hessburg, P. F., Hurteau, M. D., Allen, C. D., Keane, R. E., … & Westerling, A. L. (2022). Counteracting wildfire misinformation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20(7), 392-393. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2553

Vraga, E. K., & Bode, L. (2022). Correcting What’s True: Testing Competing Claims About Health Misinformation on Social Media. American Behavioral Scientist, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642221118252  This article studies the World Health Organization’s (WHO) infographic aimed at debunking Covid-19 emphasizing the following: Taking a hot bath does not prevent you from catching Covid-19 because it does not

Cook, J., Ecker, U. K., Trecek-King, M., Schade, G., Jeffers-Tracy, K., Fessmann, J., … & McDowell, J. (2022). The cranky uncle game—Combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation. Environmental Education Research, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2022.2085671

Vraga, E. K., & Bode, L. (2017). Leveraging institutions, educators, and networks to correct misinformation: A commentary on Lewandosky, Ecker, and Cook. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6(4), 382–388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.09.008

Bode, L., & Vraga, E. K. (2018). See something, say something: Correction of global health misinformation on social media. Health communication, 33(9), 1131-1140. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2017.1331312 Through this study we aim to answer pressing questions about the most effective way for mitigating misinformation: is it algorithmic correction, meaning the ‘related stories’ feature that facebook uses, or is

Vraga, E. K., & Tully, M. (2019). Engaging with the other side: Using news media literacy messages to reduce selective exposure and avoidance. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 16(1), 77-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2019.1572565

Tully, M., Vraga, E. K., & Smithson, A.-B. (2020). News media literacy, perceptions of bias, and interpretation of news. Journalism, 21(2), 209–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884918805262

Singh, L., Bansal, S., Bode, L., Budak, C., Chi, G., Kawintiranon, K., Padden, C., Vanarsdall, R., Vraga, E., & Wang, Y. (2020). A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter. ArXiv, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2003.13907