Congratulations to Rachel Neo and Dustin Carnahan on their recent publications related to misinformation. Rachel and Dustin both worked with me when they were grad students at OSU, and I’m delighted to see their work getting this well deserved recognition.

Dustin’s paper, “Feeling Fine about Being Wrong: The Influence of Self-Affirmation on the Effectiveness of Corrective Information” (DOI:10.1093/hcr/hqy001) was published in the July issue of Human Communication Research. The paper uses a pair of experiments to demonstrate that self-affirmation can reduce biased responses to corrective information.

Rachel’s paper, “The Limits of Online Consensus Effects: A Social Affirmation Theory of How Aggregate Online Rating Scores Influence Trust in Factual Corrections” (DOI: 10.1177/0093650218782823) is online at Communication Research. This paper adds nuance to our understanding of bandwagon effects by demonstrating that people’s faith in online ratings can be influenced by their political views.