As social media platforms deployed psychological “inoculation” on a large scale, hoping to help people spot techniques common to misinformation, Gordon Pennycook, associate professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow in the Department of Psychology and College of Arts and Sciences, had doubts about its effectiveness. He discusses new research identifying a way to strengthen inoculations, and why he began studying misinformation.
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This week's top stories on the Cornell Chronicle include MacArthur “genius grant” winners Nicola Dell and Ling Ma, the kick off of McGraw Hall’s renovations, and some good news for parents trying to get their kids to eat healthy meals: Kids don’t need to eat salads to maintain a healthy weight.

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This week's top stories on the Cornell Chronicle feature the announcement of a new university provost, a study on how psychedelics reduce anxiety in the brains of mice and rats and a profile of a student who has launched a fair-trade coffee business to support her rural village in Guatemala.

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