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.
News credibility labels have limited average effects on news diet quality and fail to reduce misperceptions.
Aslett, K., Guess, A. M., Bonneau, R., Nagler, J., & Tucker, J. A.
Thread with Caution: Proactively Helping Users Assess and Deescalate Tension in Their Online Discussions.
Chang, J. P., Schluger, C., & Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Flagging fake news on social media: An experimental study of media consumers' identification of fake news.
Government Information Quarterly
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101591
Birdwatch: Crowd wisdom and bridging algorithms can inform understanding and reduce the spread of misinformation
Stefan Wojcik, Sophie Hilgard, Nick Judd, Delia Mocanu, Stephen Ragain, M. B. Hunzaker, Keith Coleman, and Jay Baxter
Conservation of Procrastination: Do Productivity Interventions Save Time or Just Redistribute It?
Geza Kovacs, Drew Mylander Gregory, Zilin Ma, Zhengxuan Wu, Golrokh Emami, Jacob Ray, Michael S. Bernstein
CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Achieving Digital Wellbeing Through Digital Self-control Tools: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Alberto Monge Roffarello, Luigi De Russis
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
AI Chat Assistants can Improve Conversations about Divisive Topics
Lisa P. Argyle, E. Busby, J. Gubler, C. Bail, Thomas Howe, C. Rytting, D. Wingate
10.48550/arXiv.2302.07268
Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation
Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden
10.1057/s41599-019-0279-9
Promoting Online Civility Through Platform Architecture
Jisu Kim, Curtis McDonald, Paul Meosky, Matthew Katsaros, Tom Tyler
Journal of Online Trust and Safety
Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation
Gordon Pennycook, David Rand
10.1038/s41467-022-30073-5
“I Think This News Is Accurate”: Endorsing Accuracy Decreases the Sharing of Fake News and Increases the Sharing of Real News
Valerio Capraro, Tatiana Celadin
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
10.1177/01461672221117691
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
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
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
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
How Background Images Impact Online Incivility
Jinkyung Park, Vivek K. Singh
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Automated Content Moderation Increases Adherence to Community Guidelines
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Justin Cheng, Robert West
10.48550/arXiv.2210.10454
Like, recommend, or respect? Altering political behavior in news comment sections
N. Stroud, Ashley Muddiman, Joshua M. Scacco
Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization
Christopher A. Bail, Lisa P. Argyle, Taylor W. Brown, & al.
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
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
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)
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
10.1007/s11292-019-09392-z
"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
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.
10.1007/s11109-019-09533-0
Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking
Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden
European Review of Social Psychology
10.1080/10463283.2021.1876983
Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence
John Cook, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
10.1371/journal.pone.0175799
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
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
Social Clicks: What and Who Gets Read on Twitter?
Maksym Gabielkov, Arthi Ramachandran, Augustin Chaintreau, Arnaud Legout
Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS'16
Warm thanks: gratitude expression facilitates social affiliation in new relationships via perceived warmth
Williams, L. A., & Bartlett, M. Y
The Benefits of Cognitive Disfluency
Current Directions in Psychological Science
Preventing harassment and increasing group participation through social norms in 2,190 online science discussions.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A
Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online
Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio Arechar, Dean Eckles, David Rand
10.1038/s41586-021-03344-2