Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy.
Attacks on scientists
Climate science
Integrity of democracy
Misinformation
Journal
Current opinion in psychology
ISSN: 2352-2518
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Psychol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101649136
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
24
08
2023
revised:
03
10
2023
accepted:
16
10
2023
medline:
1
12
2023
pubmed:
10
11
2023
entrez:
9
11
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Democracy relies on a shared body of knowledge among citizens, for example trust in elections and reliable knowledge to inform policy-relevant debate. We review the evidence for widespread disinformation campaigns that are undermining this shared knowledge. We establish a common pattern by which science and scientists are discredited and how the most recent frontier in those attacks involves researchers in misinformation itself. We list several ways in which psychology can contribute to countermeasures.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37944324
pii: S2352-250X(23)00156-2
doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101711
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
101711Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest SL, JR, and SvdL have received funding from Google Jigsaw for empirical work on inoculation against misinformation and continue to collaborate with Jigsaw. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.